A Patch of Old Snow

Today and yesterday the weather here in the Shire

has been reminiscent of spring.

Warm and lovely, sunny and bright.

And I'm glad it's been warm 

if for no other reason than the temperatures

finally reached a level of heat sufficient to melt a very stubborn patch of snow.

First fallen from January 21 through the 23rd,

reinforced by snow from February,

this little bank of snow swept itself up against our Asian jasmine

and dug in for the long haul: almost a month.

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While other snow banks and piles melted away,

our little patch of snow stayed and stayed.

It's somewhat reminiscent of Robert Frost's poem,

"A Patch of Old Snow":

There's a patch of old snow in a corner

That I should have guessed

Was a blow-away paper the rain

Had brought to rest.

It is speckled with grime as if

Small print overspread it,

The news of a day I've forgotten --

If I ever read it. 

At least our little patch of old snow stayed clean and white for its duration.

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