The ground changed color overnight. What was once green is now white. The trees changed, too. The bark is almost striped; the brown is trying to break through its white covering. And the snow is still falling. Light reflects off the tiny crystals that we know are everywhere but cannot see. Flakes pour from an angel-white sky. The world is in a white-out. The neighborhood children have never seemed so happy to only see one color. Carrot sticks are salvaged and old scarves are thrown around freshly made snowmen. A little girl sits on her father's lap as their sled slides down the *****. The kids down the street are having a snowball fight. Each handful of snow delivers a chill that deepens as it moves from skin to spine, but they don't mind. In this picture-perfect snow globe, white is wonderful.

Watch the snowflakes fall
Catch them on your tiny tongue
Winter has begun.