Early Snow

We woke up Oct. 6 to this!

This was on taken on Oct. 9. You can see by looking on top of the cars how much snow we had gotten--and there was more to come!

People were out enjoying the snow--skiing, sledding, grilling polse (should be an "o" with a slash through it, but I can't get the keystroke to work) which are sausages/hot dogs. You can find the little disposible grills everywhere here--basically it's a foil pack with charcoal and a starter--very handy and easy. Looks like the people in the photo below have a small fire going rather than using a little grill.

This year we had our first cover-the-ground snow on Oct. 6. Mike and I had gone out for a walk the evening before, and noticed that some people had changed over to snow tires. The next morning, we knew why. By the time we got up that morning, there were already a couple of inches on the ground. It continued snowing up until Oct. 14, and overall, I'm sure we got at least a foot. Then, the weather warmed up, and the snow started to slowly melt away (though, there is some left now, from where the snow movers piled up the snow). It was a good snow--crunchy underfoot, and beautiful. There were still leaves on the trees when the snow began, so near the end there were leaves scattered on top of the snow.