Yesterday it snowed all night and day creating a soft fluffy layer burying everything. The yard is decorated with strangely shaped white mounds, loaded tree branches bending, Christmas lights glow melting fuzzy holes in the frigid blanket. A scene from a Yuletide card. When out on the lake there rose such a clatter, I ran to the window to see what was the matter, children all bundled from head to toe, ran helter skelter across the snow, a school day field trip to the lake we must go, all dashing and prancing in the deep snow below, and I heard them shout with excited delight, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night 
It’s beginning to look like a white Christmas, that is….. if the wind doesn’t blow.
Gail Niebrugge, Alaska artist
