Mild winter shows her teeth by delivering snow

The bright sunshine that shone early this morning has given way to gray skies and the first scattered snowflakes. The air is bitter cold, and man and beast alike seem to have retreated to a warmer place. This is the first genuine winter weather to hit our hills, and it makes us long for spring.

 The mild weather so far has spoiled us to the place where a blast of arctic air and the accompanying snowflakes are almost more than we older folks can bear. The older I get, the more I dread wintertime weather. Gone are the days when I exulted in the snow "piled wide and deep" -- although to be perfectly honest, they really don't make winters like they used to!