Just a little snow

not our snow, but similar to our view

this morning.  This would not be news if we were not on track for one of the least snowed upon winters on record, a fact that depends upon record keeping and counting, or if we could not observe merely with our naked eyes that there has been next to no snow this season and none on the ground since mid-December.   Since we have not had much snow, and not any for some weeks, this tiny bit of snow is news, even good news.  It will provide a tiny bit of moisture. It already reassures those of us (me in particular) who rely upon the orderly rhythm of the seasons.  It gives hope to the skiers who long to glide along trails longer than 2.5 kms of artificially produced snow-like substance.  This is the real deal, flakes falling from the sky!

AmCon connection: 1) sorts of perception: contrast the counting, record-keeping to the direct, observational; 2) harder to find so must be supplied by the reader, maybe some allusion to winter on the plains, e.g. Cather or Holm.