The Beginning of our 2024 Snow Cover...

 ... it's amazing how quickly it can cover all out there when it's coming down heavy. Warm enough to crack a window even...

"Yes, the [forecasters] were right: snow was general all over [Minnesota]...  It was falling softly over the [Saint Croix River], softly falling upon [ice floes, dark woods, and farmlands further eastward, neatly put away for the winter. It was falling in Afton, Plymouth, and New Ulm.] It lay thickly drifted [in open prairies and parking lots and blanketed the concrete and asphault roadways plows had yet to touch...  It fell here too.]

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His soul swooned softly as he heard the snow falling faintly though the universe and faintly falling like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead..."

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* needs more cowbell...