Happy Winter to all

Nancy,
I love the card. Is that one of your photos?

Very nice.

I am one of those nuts who love all the seasons including winter. When I moved into my first home away from my parents, my grandmother and I began a tradition that continued for decades and even lasted when she went into a nursing home. When the first snow began to fall we would race to call each other. I figure that in the end we had about the same success. She even called me at the store I managed. The girls who worked for me thought it was fun and participated one year almost by accident.
Shelly had taken our trash out to the compactor behind the mall and noticed it was beginning to snow. She raced inside to tell me so I could make the call only to be delayed because she was nearest when the phone rang. Instead of answering with the store name and her own, she shouted," It's snowing!"
You guessed it. It was Grama. Shelly had told her before she could get the words out so we were never sure who won that year. I said I should as shelly worked for me. Gram said she should because she had dialed first! I let her have it in her win column just because it made a cute story.

Gram lived to be in her mid nineties and to this day when the snow begins to fall, I look to the heavens and say softly, "Hey, Gram, it's snowing."
I think she hears me and smiles.