Winter: A Southern Perspective
People from Omaha say this is an extremely mild winter so far. Even so, it freezes almost every night, which would be a major cold front in SC or Texas, but a fact they take for granted here. I have no frame of reference. It feels like the dead of winter to little ol’ me. I keep hearing people complaining that it hasn’t even snowed yet. Some decades, I’ve failed to see snow. I gather Omaha is suppose to be knee deep in gray by Thanksgiving. My daughter says that’s what she doesn’t like about Nebraska; the constant gray from first snow to Spring. I’m not really sure how I’ll like it, but know one of the first things I’ll do is freeze myself building the biggest snowman I can. I’ve only twice had enough snow in my life to have a snowman. This should be a good year for snowmen. I have three grandsons to have a snowball fight with…AND Christmas should be white. I’ve never had a Christmas when we didn’t have the windows open and a warm breeze blowing the tinsel on the Christmas tree. Never a white Christmas though one year it snowed north of us. My two girls were young and my husband and I drove two hundred miles so they could see snow. It was about two inches, but we thought it was a miracle on Christmas. Maybe I’ll change perspectives, but I’m singing Christmas carols already!
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