With the first light snowfall this week, came a promise of a beautiful winter.
Winters can be beautiful, and with a possitive attitude, I find Minnesota winters very exciting and full of adventure.
As I write this, it is snowing again. The ground is still far too warm for the snow to accumulate, and even though I look forward to snow on the ground, it is still too soon. The trees have not even dropped all their leaves – or should I say, not all the trees have dropped their leaves yet.
These maple trees seem to have minds of their own on the subject – as if they decide overnight – and when you look again they are bare and there is a carpet of yellow and gold around their truncks. And don’t think two trees think the same way! No team effort here… Different trees choose different days to drop their leaves – with seemingly no predictability.
Just a note on the purpose of this Journal:
To give friends and family (mostly in South Africa) a more immediate window on our everyday lives in our new (five year old) home – Minnesota in the USA.
In the beginning of our stay here I kept a detailed journal of our adventures and published it on paper – now I will celebrate the end of our fifth year here with this journal, taking excerpts from my original journal ‘to compare notes’.JP