"Trees that once had leaves are bare.
They're dressed instead in lacy white.
Snow dusts their trunks...

"Even a snow day is fancy when Nancy is around!

Ooh la la! It's a blizzard. School is canceled. And...

So the shortest day came,
and the year died . . .

As the sun set on the shortest day of the year...

When Lisa's woolen stocking flies off the clothesline, Hedgie finds it and pokes his nose in. He...