It rarely snows here, but one of the Bay Area’s tallest peaks, Mt. Diablo, has a healthy dusting of snow today, and the snow level was said to have fallen as low as 1000 feet.

In the past, a snow level of 1000 feet has meant snow on Windy Hill, a nearby geographic feature. That’s Cassie and me pictured in 1998 in a mini-blizzard atop Windy Hill. Snow, again, is a rare event in Silicon Valley.

Were I more mobile and less encumbered by the need for MRIs and doctor appointments, and were Cassie, sadly, not in the pet hospital, I think we would have headed up to Windy just to see if, perhaps, there might be snow.

Cassie, born and bred in California, nevertheless loves the snow – she will chase snowflakes, run, slide and roll in the white stuff… it’s hard for us both to be old and infirm…

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