The First Snow

i didn't even get my fall photos taken.i got off work at 6:00 and tonight was the night i was planning on taking the Canon EOS 20D out for a long overdue date with some pretty leaves and half naked trees...didn't do it fast enough. shoot. it was all ready to go for me...lens on, batteries in, and camera card inserted, but i got a call to mow. the last mow of the summer...moved the height of the blades down to a 4 instead of the regular 5 in order to give the yard a good shave before it has to fend for itself beneath the cold, mouse home, dog pee infested, white winter snow. lucky for me, piles and piles of wet grass were left over after the yard was cut to perfection. so my job wasn't done yet. i pulled out the rake and the wheel-barrel and started piling the grass in the wagon. filling it with a little more than two piles and it was already overflowing...got to bring it all the way to the back of the house to dump it. so down the hill to dump and back up to pile. it was roughly 6:45 by this time. and lets just say i didn't get in the house until 7:35...just to give you an idea of how much grass i had to rake and dump. ridiculous. it got plenty dark on me. by this time i was in the back yard, looking for the darker spots knowing those would be the clumps of grass. it was starting to get colder, i knew it was supposed to snow, but didn't think it actually would since it was warm enough to not where a coat on my lunch break. but then it started to rain, and the wind picked up. every pile of grass i placed in the wagon, from then on, more than half flew back out all over the yard because the wind was ridiculous. so i pulled up my hood and tried to finish the best i could.

i was finally all finished so i headed inside to warm up and wash up. my hands were stained lime green and green sludge had mushed under my finger nails. disgust. i washed my hands 5 times and got a finger nail scrubber...and still, at 11:24 pm my hands won't cease to smell like dead fish. yuck!

although i expected beautiful reds, greens, yellows, and oranges for photos...i got white instead. the first snow!