Sneaux on the hills

Well, it snowed in the hills last night; an oddity for this part of the country. Big, fluffy wet flakes were falling and there was a good blanket at 10 pm. But the ground was too warm and, by morning, it was just a mottling in the clearings and nothing under the trees. Temperature was 32 at daybreak, so the stuff up in the trees stayed and was pretty. Only openings on north- facing hillsides kept their coverage into the morning. I didn't see any deer, before or after the "blizzard". Sun was shining and trees started dripping about 8:30. And I came out of the woods when the big blobs of snow started falling from the treetops.