Soft snow covers everything

The fresh white of new snow brings silence and newness to the winter solstice, the shortest day.

It reminds us to enter the Christmas season of quiet reflection and the joys of home and family.

The snow also shows us when animals like coyotes have passed, revealing their clear tracks.

And this weather invites us to go outside to walk and play in the short-lived wonderland of south coast snow, before it melts and turns to rain.