First White Christmas
We took a decoration from our tree and posed it outside. The decoration is an original of a set given to us by my parents. My mom decorated her trees when I was a child with this Christmas ball . The snow was steady and abundant, loud in the silence of the windless still day. Back of our house facing west. Same angle as the snow from February this year. Looking from our bedroom down our driveway. Walking in my first White Christmas. We ended up with about two inches, wet and packed. Yesterday was my first white Christmas. My daddy tells me that he and mom went to the back of my grandparent’s farm in 1957 and cut a small pine tree for Christmas. It snowed that day, but it was gone by Christmas here. In 1993 there was allegedly a dusting of snow at Christmas here but Jennifer and I didn’t live here then. We were in the metro Atlanta area and it didn’t snow that far south. According to what I can gather, this is otherwise the first White Christmas here since the 1880's. So, yesterday