I Don't Miss Snow

The thing is Los Angeles does have season changes. It's cold out here right now, relatively speaking, and we had some soaking rain all day yesterday and Friday. The air was crisp and clear today, after the rain, and the mountains ringing the city (mountains that are often covered by haze so when they appear it's like a miracle, like someone put them there overnight!) are tipped in snow. The palm trees in the foreground and the blue of the sky with those snow-tipped peaks are astounding in their sharpness and give me a sense of exhilaration. I live HERE, I think!

Dust of Snow
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree


Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
             --Robert Frost