Wintry Showers

January brings the snow;
Makes our feet and fingers glow. 
From ‘The Months’, by Sara Coleridge

And we had plenty of The White Stuff here today, but only in ‘occasional Wintry showers’!!  Luckily the heavens were kind to me when I went out in the lunch hour!

Footnote:  Sara Coleridge was the daughter of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. She grew up around great poets. Robert Southey and Robert Lovell were related and the Wordsworths were neighbours. She wrote mainly children's poetry which was published and popular in her lifetime. Her poem "The Months" is a nice catalogue of the months of the year.


Further Footnote:  I would have spelled Wintry as Wintery but Grammarist.com suggests that Wintry is in more common use:
Example:  His nose was thick and flat and squared off at the bottom;  it flamed a bright red in the wintry wind - 


Whatever!