The last two days, there was some buildup online and on local TV about a big storm that was coming though today.

I got up as usual and worked from home in an overcast day. Around ten, a light flurry arrived and tiny snow swirled out my back door. At 1:40, when I needed to go into the office for a meeting, the snow was a little more regular, and when I came out of the office after 3:30 there was snow built up on my truck’s windows and windshield.

After the meeting, I dropped by a cemetery near the office to see if any compositions revealed themselves, with dull gray in the sky and dull white spotting the ground. After my short visit, the snow began to come down heavier. After a number of years of telling myself I needed to get a snow shovel, I went on over to a Lowe’s on why way home and got one. And the snow kept falling.

Mary Cradles A Cold Child

By the time I got home, the flakes were sizably chunky and my yard was fully covered by the white stuff. I came inside for a minute, and then I saw this as the perfect time to take a walk in some muck boots I had acquired at Christmas. I went to the walk a little on the grounds by the cemetery at my house, and then as the sun sunk beneath the horizon, I came home. The boots were comfortable and warm; the traffic on Wyoming near the turnoff to my house was slow and full of caution; my house was thankfully warm when I returned to it.

Slow and careful on Wyoming.

We don’t often get snows in Albuquerque, and when we do and something sticks to the ground, it usually goes away quickly, but it is also a media event. Local driving becomes a slow creep through terror and ice-filled streets, and everything shuts down- for a day.

And we also celebrate the presence of the grand change of weather, because the snow will disappear as quickly as it arrived.

We’ll see if we get any more snow into the evening. Earlier today, we were supposed to. But then again, this is Albuquerque we are taking about.

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