I awoke in the morning and walked to my window. Wow, it's snowing!
Snowflakes fall from the sky unhurriedly. Looking around, the trees, the roofs, and the streets are all white. The beautiful snowflakes have opened the curtain for the winter in Toronto.
The leafless twigs on the grape vines in my back garden are covered with fluffy, shiny silver icicles, and small snowballs. The clothes-line has become a white, soft cotton rope, of fragile beauty.
Looking at the snowflakes flying in the sky outside my window, a popular song, "I Love You Saibei’s Snow" sings in my mind: "your dancing posture is so light, and your heart is so pure." Snowflakes, you make the earth so beautiful and spectacular, ah, snowflakes, I love you!
Gazing out the window intoxicated, I realize I am not prepared for this early snowfall. My shovel and snow salt are still stored away from the last winter. So I hurriedly dress, retrieve the shovel and salt from my shed, and walk to my front sidewalk to clear the freshly fallen snow.
Looking around, I see there are no pedestrians on the street. The cars parked on both sides of the road are like big white buns. The branches and leaves are also covered with thick, heavy snowflakes. The snow has covered the roof, the sidewalks, and the garden in front of my door, bending the branches of the trees, and hiding the shocked flowers.
The falling snow has concealed the appearance of all kinds of flowers and plants. The whole world has melded into a white one, and the detail of the plants has become a series of rounded, soft white shapes. Colourful red, green and yellow Christmas lights glimmer below the snow in front of my neighbour’s houses as if heralding the entrance to a beautiful fairy tale world.
I remembered a favourite Chinese nursery rhyme, "Snow in winter is a great treat, like a blanket it covers the wheat, next harvest season we’ll have double the wheat”. The autumn has ended, the winter has arrived.Different seasons of the year bring us different scenery, no matter how we behave, whether we are willing or not, nature will send different gifts to us, like a kind father.
I couldn't help but say from the bottom of my heart to this unexpected early snow, “Hello, early winter!”
早晨起來走到窗前，哇，下雪了！雪花從天上不緊不慢的飄落下來, 放眼望去，樹上，房頂上，街上全是白茫茫的了，美麗的雪花為多倫多的冬天拉開了序幕。
后院葡萄架上落光了葉子的小枝上，掛滿了毛茸茸，亮晶晶的銀雪條兒，堆滿了蓬松的雪球。平常曬衣服的繩子，變成了雪白的，軟綿綿的棉花繩子，著實好看。
看著窗外漫天飛舞的雪花，腦海中不禁響起一首膾炙人口的歌《我愛你塞北的雪》，“你的舞姿是那樣的輕盈，你的心地是那樣的純潔”。雪花，是你把大地裝扮得如此美麗，壯觀，啊, 雪花，我愛你！
正望著窗外陶醉呢，忽然想起雪鹽，雪鏟還沒準(zhǔn)備好。于是匆忙穿戴完畢，全副武裝的沖進(jìn)后院的庫房里，迅速取出雪鹽，雪鏟，為迎接更多的大雪做好充分準(zhǔn)備。我手捧一盒雪鹽來到前院，在人行道上仔細(xì)地撒了一遍。左右環(huán)顧，街上沒有行人，汽車也極少，停在馬路兩邊的汽車像一個個雪白的大饅頭。樹枝，樹葉上也掛滿了厚厚的，沉甸甸的雪花，雪花蓋滿了屋頂，蓋滿了人行道，也蓋滿了我門前花園的草坪，壓彎了花園里的花枝，花的枝干和枝葉上都托著一團(tuán)團(tuán)的小雪球。漫天雪花隱沒了種種花草的外表，把整個世界溶成了白色的一體，配上街坊鄰居門前各色各樣圣誕彩燈，仿佛來到了美麗的童話世界。
想起了一首童謠“冬天雪花是寶貝，去給麥苗蓋上被，明年麥子多幾倍”。秋去冬來，大自然總是這么恩賜，一年四季不同時節(jié)為我們帶來不同的風(fēng)景，無論我們表現(xiàn)如何，愿意不愿意，他都會像一位慈祥的父親那樣，送來我們所需要的一切。我不由得發(fā)自內(nèi)心向這陡然而至的早冬道一聲 “親愛的冬，你好“！
作者、主播介紹
主播介紹
Dave Page, Teacher, Writer, Community Literacy Educator.
Dave Page has been working as a teacher and community leader for over thirty years. He has written books and many resources on teaching. He has been awarded the Ontario Lieutenant Governor Award for his community literacy work.
Dave was given the story “Early Snowfall in Toronto” in November of 2020 just after the first big snow of the season. Says Dave: "Yu Rong's prose of the first snowfall is a universal experience for Canadians - I love Yu Rong's passion for nature, and her attention to detail. It is a pleasure to read this story."
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