It Never Rains In Southern California, But It Snows, Man, It Snows

It's not often that I wake to find the mountains behind my house covered with snow.  This gelid early morning scene reminded me of the first few lines of Horace's Ode 1.9:

Vides ut alta stet nive candidum

Soracte, nec iam sustineant onus

silvae laborantes, geluque

flumina constiterint acuto

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Happy New Year!