marja-leena – Well, I’ve learned my lesson from the past few years – I’m not going to let one early snowstorm get me all excited. Chances are we won’t get significant snowfall until February. it’a hard to make any predictions any more.

David – Good to hear you’ve survived the move and are enjoying your new home. I think I’d find a southeastern winter very disorienting – more so than, say, a Californian one – because so much of the wildlife and plant life is familiar.

The autumn leaves down here are pretty uneven, but some individual trees are spectacular, and the varied colors make nice views over the distance. (I have distance now, whee! ;-) ) The smaller plants (and some of the trees) are showing everything from flowers to berries to next-year’s buds, sometimes at the same time.

I like the 140 character limit. I’m going to give it a try. Mornings here seem especially suited to such an exercise.