Once Upon an Afternoon, Written and illustrated by me...

Once upon an afternoon we opened our front door to decide whether or not to venture outside.

Once upon an afternoon, can you believe it? ...it was still blowing cold mountain breezes and the sun just wasn't warm enough to chase the winter away.

Once upon an afternoon we could have refused to brave the weather insisting spring would be here soon!


On such an afternoon we'd mosy around in sweatpants and slippers building (again) with the blocks and molding (again) with the clay and finally piling onto the couch under blankets (again) to watch a show sleepily.










Well that's not how this story goes.

Once upon an afternoon we said to "pish posh!" to waiting on spring and strapped on our boots, pulled down our touques, swooshed on our scarves, tucked on our mittens and got to shovelling!

We shovelled the front porch, we shovelled the back deck... and before we knew it, we'd shovelled right out into the yard...

And discovered a wall of snow hiding a huge path between the yard and the fence.
So we sunk and jumped and clambered right on over! We made tunnels and trenches... We made snow animals and snow men...



And before long the snow wasn't so cold or deep or dreary at all! 


Perhaps if we can spend a few more afternoons busily enjoying this snow..

then, upon one afternoon, we'll find the tunnels gone and the snowmen melting... and before we know it spring will have sprung with many a winter's adventure to talk about!