Well, not exactly, but it did in fact snow here last night.
It also snowed in Savannah just across the river from us.
This will make front page news most likely.

The last time I was in Savannah, a few azaleas were peeking out and roses were still blooming. It takes some doing for it to freeze in Savannah, but it snowed last night. Not for long, only about an hour and a half and not for much, it melted almost as fast as it fell. It did snow though…and it was lovely.

Children down the street were playing and shouting and neighbors ran back and forth between the houses. I could see the snaps of camera flash as folks were proving to their friends that it was actually snowing in South Georgia. I took some, too.

I was so bedazzled, I wrote the wrong date.
It was actually the 12th of February, not the 11th.
Still…the month and year are right!

A little dash of wild gooseberry-ness is needed here…

That’s better.

It took Hildegard a few seconds and then it was like “I remember this stuff!” from when we were stationed in Colorado.

She showed our little houndy dog, Georgia Rose, the fun snow could be (even this little bit).  I apologize for the slight fuzziness of this picture. They were running and I have a new camera (more about that in another post, though!) I’m still trying to figure it out.

She was mystified…

Since we were out, Desperado wanted to be with us.

As soon as his kitty feet hit the snow, it all came back to him…the reason he truly became a housecat in Colorado.

I stayed out, going back and forth between the warm coziness of the house and the icy beauty of outside. I called my parents, the brother who was home from work and a dear friend to share in the wonder of this beautiful dusting of sparkly snow. A little side note…my brother told me that he heard on the news that 49 out of the 50 states had snow somewhere in each one. We laughed about traveling to Hawaii and tossing snow on the beach to make it all 50. I thought that was really amazing and I’m glad he shared it with me.

 As far as this snow went, it was slight, it was short-lived and it wasn’t even sticking one speck in the back of the house (too close to the lake.)

While it was here, though, it was magical.

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