All i see is white...

It started last night...huge fat white flakes falling from the sky...silent and steady all through the night. We woke to 3 inches and no end in sight.

I drove to work with my awesome subaru, a lil nervous and very slowly, and made it there safely 10 minutes before they announced school would be canceled for the day. Haha! Oh well. I stayed for a meeting and then drove home, slowly and carefully.

It was so pretty. I realized i have never lived anywhere where it snows like this. Where this is just part of winter. And it is beautiful. Especially since i know that next week sometime it will be sunny again and warm. Chances are...

Every place i have lived was ruled by nearby waters and rain: Berlin, Portland, Vancouver, Hilo. The snow makes everything so serene and silent and calm. The town looks amazing. And when have i ever had a SNOW day! YAY! All i wanted to do was make a fire and read a book in front of it while the snow kept on falling. It hasn't stopped. We are now at over a foot of snow. Our lanai is full!

Everybody keeps asking me how i feel about this, how its like being from hawaii and seeing all this snow. Would i rather be on a beach than this...sadly yes. But i can still appreciate the beauty of a snowy winter white day!