'OH, THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS FRIGHTFUL ... BUT THE SCENERY IS SO DELIGHTFUL!' ~ THE FIRST SNOWFALL

~ Snowy Michigan postcard beauty

~ Following 'landmark' white pine home

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The First Snow-Fall

The snow had begun in the gloaming,

And busily all the night

Had been heaping field and highway

With a silence deep and white.

Every pine and fir and hemlock

Wore ermine too dear for an earl,

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree

Was ridged inch deep with pearl.

~ James Russell Lowell