surprises the unwary.
Shouldn’t those be leaves?
After I threw a blanket over the basil, and took a picture, I checked our local meteorologist’s web page. It seems the record October snow fall occurred in 1967, which was the first fall I lived in the Chicago area. We moved from snow free El Salvador.
Had I seen snow before that fall? Lots. We moved to our Grandparents house in Buffalo, NY in January. 🙂

Early snow, or late…
How best to prognosticate?
Check the error bars.
Double-U G N:
This snow is early but not
…unprecedented.
Too early for snow
I won’t get out the shovel
Until November.
Cool summer, cool fall
It doesn’t mean anything
Only models do.
Summer has ended.
Arctic blasts freeze tomatoes;
they’ll never ripen.
Bombogenesis,
Or Arctic Oscillation,
Snowflakes do not care
Gore Solar Slacking
Carbon Dioxide Climbing
Frozen Denmark Strait
Hot air blows
From the debate; untroubled
the snow falls.
my fine autumn birds
feathers red and gold like leaves
stay, stay till the spring
Fred–
That’s beautiful!
Frozen tomatoes,
Wilting basil,
Time to stew.
San Diego summer
It is almost November
Is it cold yet?