This Wintry Day

It's a blizzard of a day that
has been unleashed upon us,
scarce warning by the weather
office; Nature in her officious
occasionally malicious way
having capriciously determined
we were in for a surprise.

So, surprise! then, and welcome
to an all-day, all-night, all-time
barrage to most certainly enliven
an otherwise normal, perhaps
slightly boring day of plodding
along too smugly. Waking in the
wee hours before dawn, a spectacle
of heavenly lit beauty revealed.

The atmosphere speckled with
lazily floating clusters of crystalline
snow. Bedazzlingly smocking all it
smothered, a ghostly, humped
landscape emerged to greet the day.

A chaser of suddenly freezing
rain tinkling with faerie iceballs
captured the landscape as a
slippery-slick mantle of ice
layered the soft whiteness of
snow. For light comedic relief,
the wind sent little zephyrs

to ruffle the following curtains
of snow, and look! just look at
all those people shivering and
shouting, slipping and shovelling,
revelling in the persnickety
nature of this wintry day.