October Snow

It snowed a week ago, October 12.  Tied for the 3rd earliest snow in our county.  It was the earliest snow in my memory.

Yes, I was alive in 1955 when there was an earlier date.  But being 2 1/2 years old, I do not remember that event.

I returned home from some morning errands and reported that the very light rain sprinkles had developed into tiny bits of crystals that I could see hitting the windshield.  Later that afternoon there were big, fluffy snowflakes coming down.

Kind of made me think of the poem by James Whitcomb Riley: "When the Frost is on the Punkin."