October Snow by Elizabeth Thomsen
I don’t know about my readers who live on the east coast, but I am still reeling over the snowstorm we just had this October. In October!!!! There was never a snowstorm in this part of the country in October that I can recall- and I won’t tell you how many years I can recall.
As a child when my class sang the Thanksgiving song “Over the River and Through the Woods” and came to the lines,
- “The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh
- through the white and drifted snow.”
we would giggle. Snow in November, at Thanksgiving? It had never happened where we lived in New Jersey. It almost seemed silly to sing this song. And here, in 2011, was snow in October. Unheard of.