It could have been snow...

Dear Diary,

After days of below freezing temperatures the weather turned quite mild. It is like being on weather a see-saw! We got a great deal of unfrozen precipitation which, with Thanksgiving and so many people needing to travel, was a good thing. After the spectacular sky of yesterday, today it was just gray and drippy. But all those drips left the crab apple tree directly behind my house decorated with tiny diamonds. It was, in its own and humble way, just as lovely as the dramatic big sky.

ps. A genealogical update. When I was tracing my Dyer lineage I wasn't paying all that much attention to the "distaff" side...the wives of the Dyer ancestors. Come to find out Mary Dyer's son Samuel (from whom I am descended) married Anne Hutchinson's granddaughter! Anne was Mary's good friend and mentor and was every bit the rebel and advocate of religious freedom as she was. Anne had been tried twice in the 1630's for "heresy" because she refused to go along with the theocracy of 17th century Puritan Boston. She was banished and her family and many followers, including Mary Dyer, left Boston for Rhode Island. Anne and 6 of her 16 children were killed in an Indian raid in 1643.