First Flurries...

It was with great excitement and anticipation that Maryland received her first flurries. The news on both television and radio has been filled with talk about it for weeks... when it will happen... how to prepare... and if a white Christmas is in the offing. For my desert-dwelling friends, flurries are "a light, brief shower of snow."

We were at the mall when we heard people excitedly talking about "the flurries" and sure enough, when we went outside, there was a light layer of snow on the ground. The streets were wet but no snow stuck to the warm asphalt. Mall maintenance crews had already salted the sidewalks so they also were wet but not snowy.

The top of our parking garage was snow-covered... except for the mysterious circle that had no tire tracks or foot steps around it.

The snow stayed until the next day when it rained... and washed the snow away!