This Morning

This morning I got up early,

stretched, yawned, 

poured a cup of coffee,

thought of you,

looked out my window

without a view, shivered a little

while the air went colder. Then,

something changed-

a reminder it's not yet spring.

Blue became white, and 

I watched the rain 

turn into snow.

-Nia Rhein 

This is a true story. It happened this morning. And it was incredible. 

I woke up earlier than usual today, and I went and sat at my desk, daydreaming out my window. I don't have much of a view from my room; the window just looks out through a row of trees (which are particularly dreary right now during wintertime) onto an open field behind a horse farm. I sat there sipping a cup of tea, actually, sleepily watching the quiet world outside. I had the window open to let some fresh air into my room. It was raining heavily but the air wasn't freezing. Then, very suddenly, a breeze blew in, and the temperature of the air shifted in a split second. It was instantaneously frigid, so cold I had to shut it out, and as I was watching the rain fall, in that split second, I watched while the rain halfway down my vision fell to the ground, and above that line of sight was snow. Literally half of the water appeared dark blue, while the higher portion of that same sky had already frozen into white flurries. If I'd looked up and seen a man with headphones on, shaking a box of fake snow I wouldn't have been startled. It was one of the most incredibly breathtaking things I've ever seen. I should really wake up early more often...