Winterlude

Being that we're under a winter weather advisory again, I can't help but be carried back to last year's storm, which was no ordinary storm, not even a freak storm, but something dark and ominous, even before the lights went out. Or maybe it just seemed so me, a Texan who's never been so cold in her life.

Is it silly to admit that with the onrush of cold wind last night I felt a tinge of fear? 

Snow has always been a short-lived novelty in this area, but it's becoming more and more common. Perhaps it will become so common that we'll even start buying mittens, so we don't have to try to catch snowflakes with our chapped and frozen fingers, like I did last year.

There are certain days when winter seems like its own world, and this is one of them.