Decembery

December looks like December at last. Snow started falling this morning and, according to forecast, won't stop until tomorrow. Too much snow and we'll have to start feeding hay to the cows, but a little white stuff sure is pretty!
  

I'm not certain how much Princess is excited for this, her thirteenth winter.

It's Ellie's first winter and second snow. She played until she was sopping wet but still didn't want to come indoors.

The horses bucked, reared, and raced around in the snow but were happy to eat their supper inside the barn.

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"I heard a bird sing

In the dark of December,

A magical thing,

And sweet to remember:

'We are nearer to spring

Than we were in September.'"

     ~Oliver Herford, "Hope," in The Century Magazine, January 1914