Snow!

I got up this morning, and the ground was white with snow. Because I don't have class until 10:35am today, I decided to make myself some whole wheat crepes and make a simple blueberry compo with the rest of the berries I had in my fridge.

I used the Betty Crocker recipe this morning for my crepes and tweaked it by using vanilla almond milk slightly diluted with water and whole wheat pastry flour from Bob's Red Mill Farms. For the compo, I took blueberrys, put them in a small saucepot, filled it with water about half way up to the top of the berries, and added a good amount of sugar. You can use fruit juice for water too. I then proceeded to boil it, keeping it at least simmering until you get a nice syrup out of it. I got impatient, so it wasn't done all the way. But it still taste great and was warm.

I halved the recipe, and it was still too much for me. So the half I did not eat, along with the blueberry compo, is in the freezer right now. I could have put it outside, but it's only 36 degrees out there, not quite cold enough to be considered a freezer.

As I was cleaning up the dishes, I watched the large flakes decend to the earth, and it gave me an idea for a poem. Here it is:

Snow
Floating gracefully down from soft billowy clouds
Like cotton candy caught in the wind,
You make me believe for a moment
That I do not live on the earth
But a cloud as you kiss the ground below
With your chilly embrace.
I love you, snow.