It finally snowed here in the great state of Utah. I've been wondering where winter was. The eastern part of the United States is getting more winter than it wanted and we are stuck in perpetual spring.
Now this sounds kind of good. I mean spring - sunshine, flowers, green grass... but no, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about spring before all that happens. Spring when it's stopped snowing, but there are still no leaves on the trees, no flowers and there's definitely no green. Early spring - grey spring- spring before anything has sprung.
Just when I'd given up on winter and decided we weren't having one, it happened.
This is the wonder of Utah. In the night time, while we were asleep, tiny snowflakes began to fall - dry flakes that can barely be seen. They didn't fall en masse. They seemed very casual about the whole affair. They gently slid down the sky and by sheer incomprehensible numbers slowly covered the ground and trees and created a beautiful winter scene in heaps and heaps of snow.
Utah powder is what they call it. Ideal for skiing and sledding and snowboarding. It's dry and fun to play in and a person doesn't come inside drenched to the bone in consequence. I think it's pretty amazing stuff. Not great for snowballs and snowmen - it doesn't pack well because it
is dry snow.
The way I see it, if it's going to be winter and it's going to be cold, then it may as well snow and make the world beautiful too.
