Winter Encore

Its’ that time of year when one day is like spring and the next day is definitely not!

Wednesday was a very mild and pleasant day, with temps in the 40s and spring-like (for those of us in Kansas, anyway!).

Yesterday dawned cold with a gusty wind out of the north and a winter storm advisory scheduled for 6 p.m. Being a big fan of snow, I was checking the outdoors regularly from about three o’clock on.

I’m not sure when the snow began, but the picture above was taken early in the evening. The snow was so fine that it looked more like fog than snow. But you don’t see fog lying on the ground like this!

The light in the photo was cool, too! The light and the snow combined to create a wonderful ‘sense of atmosphere’; the kind the inspires me to try to paint it.

The weather advisory was due to expire at 6 p.m. today (yes, we do schedule these things out here!), so of course I was checking the weather again. Call it a fetish.

Here’s the same view from last night as seen today. There was about two inches of accumulation, though a persistent north wind made it difficult to get an accurate measurement. Parts of our front porch were bare; other parts were buried under four to six-inch snow drifts. And the porch is roofed in!

Snowfall continued periodically all day. Sometimes very fine, sometimes heavy. It was a beautiful day.

It was a good day to write, too. I worked on the Saving Grace snowflake most of the writing day, finishing Step Five: Character Descriptions (characters telling the story in their own words) and working on Step Six: Four Page Synopsis. My goal for the day was to finish steps 5, 6 and 7 and get started on 8. It was a realistic goal because I’d already started them in the process of figuring out other things.

But as happened with the character descriptions in Step Five, I’m allowing time to get carried away and write more than intended on the other steps.

The neat thing is that by the time I get to Step Eight, which is a scene worksheet, the story will already have been thoroughly reviewed forwards and backwards and from several different view points. I expect the scene worksheet to be more a matter of sequencing than creating.

We’ll have to see how that goes, though. I’ve been known to be wrong before!