Snow

The weather in Chicago is not always as we would like it to be, but we usually bear it with a fatalistic acceptance. Too hot? Too cold? Well, that's just how it is here in Chicago. But a snowstorm in the second week of October???

A chance of snow was in the forecast for this past Thursday, but I was so sure it wouldn't happen that when I opened my back door, my first thought was: What is this white stuff all over my porch? I couldn't remember an accumulating snowfall occurring so early in the fall. Where I live, the warmth of Lake Michigan typically keeps temperatures above freezing until the end of October.