Snow in the air,
Snow on the ground,
More in my hair,
Falls all around!
Snowballs packed tight,
Kids laughing and hiding,
Forts left, ice castles right
Tiny tots slipping and sliding.
Tongue sticks out far,
Nothing hits it, no fair!
A snowflake, like a star,
Lands coldly right there.
Ah, how we love the snow,
Sledding, flopping, tromping,
Love when the drifts flow,
Plowing, tunneling, stomping.
Copyright 2015 Brenda Davis Harsham
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So the snow arrived eventually? Your little ones must be excited! Got caught in some snow shopping for shoes the other day. Lots of big flakes of snow, but I was so relieved the pavements were wet, no chance of it settling. When I was little I would have disappointed with my adult thinking! 😉
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LOL I remember loving the snow. I only love it for my kids’ sake now. They had such fun with it.
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Beautiful poem.. full of imagery .. And Children love nothing better than to go stomping and tromping around in the snow.. I know my own little granddaughter could not wait to go out in her wellies.. 🙂
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Thanks, yes we love to go out and get caked with the white joy.
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Yes we take our 4 year old granddaughter sleighing 🙂 she loves it.
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Is sleighing plunging downhill on a toboggan, what we call sledding? Or is it riding a sleigh pulled by a horse? My kids love to sled, but have never been in a sleigh, and probably never will.
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Tobogganing 🙂 down hill and that’s what I meant LOL.. Sledging 🙂 I did go on a fantastic but Very cold sleigh ride pulled by two horses one Christmas we treated ourselves in Austria.. An experience I will always remember as being wonderful through the snowy woods 🙂 Never say never…. I never thought I would experience it either.. But at minus 15 C below it was cold..
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Ah, isn’t it lovely we all speak the same language, but with these delicious, gourmet dialects forming? 🙂 Your sleigh ride sounds amazing, but I hope you had a lot of warm blankets and a hot drink, too.
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Magical isn’t it? It seems like everything turns into a fairyland. I love the star looking snow! It does look like tiny stars and I love this photo and all your poems! Big hugs to you Pink Brenda!
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Thanks Pink MM, Supermom Extraordinaire. The snow makes everything clean and bright looking. 🙂 Very magical.
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Your snow is really beautiful…… but I’m glad to have our record setting temperatures. It was in the low 60’s during that time!
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Oh, that sounds like paradise.
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It is. And it made it so much easier to return from India. That kind of cold would be so jolting after having adjusted to India’s heat.
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I do wonder at my sanity for living in the Northeast and enduring the cold, but it does have many good qualities. 🙂 And my kids love the snow days.
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I have a friend in Quebec that is dealing with -20 temperatures (-40 with wind chill). I can’t imagine living in that.
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Brrr! That is too cold.
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That’s my opinion too. I suggested she move to British Columbia if she had to stay in Canada!
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Yes, I hear that’s beautiful. I’ve always wanted to visit.
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Yes it is beautiful. It is very much like Seattle area.
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Sounds lovely. Seattle was beautiful when I visited. I have such good luck when I travel, and the sun shone on Pike’s Market when I was there. What a delightful place.
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You are reminding me about the fun to be had when we play in the snow! Smiles for sure 🙂
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This is when neighborhood friends are essential. Or siblings! 🙂
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such a delightful poem, Brenda. you made me feel the winter energy and youthful happiness that blow in with a snow blitz. it’s good to think like kids because most look forward to the snow play but adults are like, “OMG, let me go out and empty all the store shelves for supplies!!!!!” cheers!
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Well, I had to shop, too. LOL The shops were mobbed and shelves did empty out. We tried a snowman, but the snow is loose and not packable. Oh, well. Sledding next. 🙂
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Brenda, this is so lovely and fun. My daughter is hoping for snow. So far all we have is snowdrop flowers peeking out of our lawn.
Blessings ~ Wendy ❀
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We have two – three feet predicted and high winds. I am hoping for sledding, but it may be too much for that. 🙂 Fingers crossed, though.
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Awesome Brenda – I felt like I was jumping around and having a good ole time in the snow.
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It was fun to finally get a few inches. I have the opposite feeling about the 3 feet predicted tonight and tomorrow. 🙂
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More on its way they say!
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Yes, indeed, maybe too much. LOL We’re never satisfied. I just hope we have heat. The pipes will freeze and burst if we lose heat.
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Nice poem
Playing with ice Who is there ?
you are not able to see
Snow in hair,
Are you a tree?
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All the trees were covered in snow, that is sure. Kids playing here and there, and snow in my hair, perhaps I am the snow queen. 🙂
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I think winter hates Green
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You might be right. Or maybe it’s envious.
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such snowy fun!
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Woo-hoo! More snow coming our way…
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A real dumping on its way by the sound of it!
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That’s what they say. We’ll see. Fingers crossed the power doesn’t go. We don’t need to lose heat and have pipe burst in the first thaw.
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Best wishes for whatever comes.
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Thanks!
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Oh, yaaay!! A snow photo and a snow poem!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Now I am smiling so brightly! Thank you!! 🙂 It makes me dream beautiful dreams of snow! 🙂
Did you see my Summers at sea poem over at Granny’s Garden? I was so hoping you would like it!! 🙂 🙂
Here it is: http://grannysgarden.org/2015/01/25/summers-at-sea/#comment-710
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For you, I tried hard to finish it and get it up. Snow is hard to photograph. It seems to go flat in my camera so readily. Your Summer at Sea poem is lovely. I would love to have a summer like you describe with my kids.
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Thank you for the snow dreams!! 🙂 🙂 I so appreciate it! 🙂 You must go to Norway one summer with your kids! They’d love it! 🙂
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I hope to go in a year or two. Have to find a way to afford it. 🙂
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Oh, I know, I want to go to US too, but it is just soooo expensive!!
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Yes! I would love to go. Will try to save up. 🙂
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🙂 😉 😉
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Very enjoyable! Thank you.
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I’m so glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
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I really liked this. The snow is so much fun, thanks for the reminder. From: The Desert : )
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Snow is fun, but now they are talking about three feet falling. That may be too much of a good thing. 🙂
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What fun and lovely piece. 🙂
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Thanks! 🙂
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Fun:)
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It was a fun day! 🙂
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so wonderful words and images – just like a music!
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Thanks! 🙂
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making me jealous… 🙂
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LOL Maybe you should come visit one day. 🙂
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I wish…
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I’d like to see the whole world! 🙂
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me too!
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LOL A kindred spirit indeed. Hugs!
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Thanks for reminding us how fun the snow is. In preparation for more snow…
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Lots more to come. Perhaps too much…
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