First Snow

As readers of this blog know, I try to mark the first snow of the year with a blog post. 

I’ve posted a photo of the first snow (or what I considered the first snow…) pretty regularly since 2007. Here they are: 2024 (November 20), 2023 (October 26), 2022 (November 6), 2021 (November 11), 2020 (October 17), 2019 (October 1), 2018 (October 4), 2017 (October 26), 2016 (November 22), 2015 (Nov. 5), 2014 (Nov. 8), 2013 (Oct. 20), 2012 (Oct. 4), 2011 (Nov. 10), 2010 (Nov. 21), 2008 (Oct. 28), and in 2007 (Sept. 11).

This year, I was out of town and my wife wasn’t quite as invested in my practice. As a result, I have this photo and a kind of lukewarm acknowledgement that there were flurries. I’m calling this the first snow of the year, but without as much confidence as usual: