Well its happened the past three years that I've lived here in Provo, so I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised that it happened a fourth year in a row. Snow in October, snow before Halloween! Fall has barely had a chance to show off its colors, and winter is already trying to get in and upstage it.
How rude! Its less than ideal to have snow on the ground before December or at least before the day after Thanksgiving. But it seems downright wrong, almost immoral, to have snow before Halloween. It like mother nature is encroaching on the territory of fall, just skipping right over it the way department stores skip over Halloween and Thanksgiving and go straight to Christmas. Its not very nice of mother nature, and I must say I'm rather disappointed in her. Again, you would think by now I would stop being surprised by the early snow, but it made me almost start crying. I immediately began to question the wisdom of living here in Provo and think less of BYU and their great academic programs, cheap tuition, and morally irreproachable atmosphere. Is it really worth it? IS IT?!! Come June when it stops snowing I'll remember that it is, but between now and then I'll have to be constantly reassuring myself that its a good idea and be on the look out for things that make up for the weather.
