Snowfall and Halloween - Highlights of Winter in the U.S.

Snowfall and Halloween -  Highlights of Winter in the U.S.

• P.Natarajan ( from DENVER CO.
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We are enjoying the Winter, staying in Aparna’s home in Centennial, CO.  The people in this County celebrated, a day before, Halloween in the Club House situated very close to Aparna’s home. The event was from 3 pm to 5 pm. A good number of stalls stood decorated and mostly women dressed in pretty costumes managed the show. Heaps of chocolates in different sizes, shapes and wrapped in attractive covers were being distributed handfull to children. The boys and girls turned up dressed as priests, court jesters, and many wore masks harry as ghosts. The clubhouse was decorated for the occasion and music was chiming to the rhythm. Sekhar, as a committee member, was displaying a visual color display upon the walls which went in circles played to a musical beat. People were hugging each other in joy and it was really heartwarming to witness the warmth even though the outside atmosphere was very chill enveloped by the snowfall.

Halloween is an annual holiday every year, celebrated on 31st of October, and the day being Thursday this year. It was originated with ancient Celtic festival Samhain when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. The event is  filled with mystery, magic, and superstition. People felt close to deceased relatives and friends. They set places for these friendly spirits at the dining table, left treats on the doorsteps and along the sides of the roads, lit candles to help the loved ones find their way back to the spirit world. Today the scene is depicted as fearsome, malevolent and scarier. 

Halloween comes from ‘All Hallows’ Eve’ meaning hallowed evenings. People went from door to door 100 years before dressing as saints which is the origin of Halloween Costumes and treating the event innocuous. A report gives an idea of the spending to the extent of 7 billion dollars collectively for the Frankenstein and black cats with arched backs, illumined and glowing on the front of the lawns across America.

It also stands in as Harvest Festival where Harvest is Candy and revelers are dressed in costumes. It is a common sight that Pumpkins are carved and transformed as Jack-O’- lantern’ Face, candle lights flicker inside the carved surface beckoning the onlookers.                                      

The winter is assuming a mammoth proportion at this time of the season.

Snow is falling to the ground
piling up in an enormous mounds
Likely Schools canceled the Day
When children run out to play

An opaque dustsheet floats so light

Upon the roofs, lamps, and vehicles bright

Snow settles softly like a falling Star

Enveloping like a warm Cocoon  

Encouraged by the flicker of the first flumes

A sight to witness the Snowfall as if it were a rainfall!

pn