We had our first snow today. I’ve been sitting here and looking at it all day. Birds fly past, heading to and from the bird feeders. The occasional hawk comes into view. Today’s offering is in the form of a rondeau .
Snow’s arrival to the season
turns the air from cold to freezin’
leafless trees from stark to now draped
with crystalline fluffed clinging capes
landscape accepts stunned accretion
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Whiffs of ice mist set some wheezin’
Wood smoke curling as we ease in
Arthritis creaks and cracks with aches
Snow’s arrival to the season
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Critters have had time to begin
Gathering stores for the freeze in
Still their whiskers quiver, feet quake
Tiny hearts race, furred bodies shake
Brown against white, raptors breeze in
Snow’s arrival to the season
Tao Talk 
I loved “crystalline fluffed clinging capes”!🙂
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🙂 i’m glad you did
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First snow here this afternoon- just flurries but everyone always gets excited the first time like they’ve never seen them before. Of course the next time they will probably be complaining. I love cold weather and snowy winters! The weather man this morning said it could very well be a snowy winter. We shall see.
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What state are you located? Some of the snow from the day I wrote First Snow is still on the ground. Tonight is the coldest so far. Even the wood stove isn’t keeping up with it. I prefer snow over slush or freezing rain. I think it’s going to be a very cold winter.
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Eastern Ohio. I think it went from summer- maybe a week of autumn and now winter.
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