Every winter there comes that first morning when I scrape off the car and get in, start up the engine, and take off, only to pull over to the side of the road a few minutes later because it is so cold that my breath is freezing on the windshield and I can't see.

That was yesterday. This time I'm going to draw a line in my head so it doesn't come as a shock next year. When the temperature is expected to go below fifteen degrees overnight, remember to warm up the car. Bit surprising after the 50 degree temperatures we had on Sunday.

When I used to live up a ways north for a few years, there was an added treat on mornings when the temperature was something like -10 or lower; the first time I would step outside the insides of my nostrils would start to freeze.

I liked Mike Jasper's entry today from North Carolina. I've never noticed a sound when snow falls. It may be that I'm so used to it that I don't even think about it. I'll have to listen next time.