snow

In the middle of the night a wide band of snow began to whiten a broad swath of Dixieland’s northern parts.

As per no wind and the law of gravity, the flakes slowly eased straight down — wet flakes landing on almost every exposed surface, creating a myriad of miniature castles and cavities to muffle sounds coming from anything anywhere.

Sometime around daylight, the snowfall paused. About two inches had fallen. Then it resumed with even larger flakes.  Another inch fell, then another, and another, finally ending around noon.

By then, everyone had witnessed a rarity — enough snow to … Read the rest “In A World Of Silence And Wonder”