A Very, Very, Short, Short Summer

Only two days ago it was positively spring, over sixty degrees, shirt sleeve weather. Today summer is over. As some like to say, in South Dakota we have two seasons; White winter and green winter. Well this is South Dakota after all.

Winter is Here. :-(

I have been in the state of denial for several weeks, but this morning I came to the inescapable conclusion that winter is here. I awoke this morning rubbed the sleep from my eyes and found these trees in my front yard. Beautiful? Yes! but also harbinger of other attributes of winter; more snow, more cold, more... well, winter! Buck up old boy, summer will be hot.

p.s. (Yes, I really know that December 22 is the 'real' first day of winter).