The roads are quieter and orchards lay silent again, waiting for the first blanket of snow and the long hibernation of Himalayan winter.
Val d'Isere is the traditional host of the start of the main European swing of the World Cup season, having staged men's races last weekend as part of the traditional Criterium de la Premiere Neige ("races of the first snow").
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Ask for a harbour mountain-view room and you can watch seaplanes take off from Coal Harbour or see the first streaks of light hit the snow-capped North Shore mountains as you sip your morning coffee.
Their delicate texture alone is enough to make a hunter strap on his boots at the first trickle of melting snow.
To experience the beautiful environment of snow-light skiing first hand, aim to visit the Cascades next year, right around this time.
Some of the Australians are from the subtropics and are now getting their first taste of snow.
"In my high school days, we'd have snow typically for our first couple of games of the high school baseball season, but never that much snow, " he said.
SPACs may be the first indication of a sustained recovery, like daffodils poking up through the snow.
Then, when I had finished that, I poured myself more tea, and because I was still hungry, and because I really did feel happy, sitting there in the quiet, watching the snow, I sneaked first one slice, then another, then all of the toast I had made for Marie, and ate it with the jam while it was still warm.
The first rain of the year, which fell last week, turned the Kukcha river, a snow-fed torrent that rushes through the town, from its normal milky jade to a muddy brown.
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In Massachusetts, Gov. Deval Patrick enacted a statewide driving ban for the first time since the Blizzard of '78, a ferocious storm that dropped 27 inches of snow, packed hurricane-force winds and claimed dozens of lives.
Brian Wesbury, chief economist at First Trust in Chicago, said forecasts of the snow's impact were based on historical data.
We were reminded of waking in the morning after the first snow.
Here "longboard" racers dressed in period garb compete annually in three events, snow permitting, one during each of the first three months of the year.
The visitors were met with snowfall at their training session in Aberdeen on Wednesday, with some members of the touring party seeing snow for the first time.
The snow came down on higher ground on parts of eastern Wales, the first of 2013 for many areas.
Most people step off that snow lift for the first time and stare down in awe at the sheer expanse of ice that awaits them.
Parts of the Golden Route, particularly the high roads, close when the first snow falls, usually in October or November, reopening in May or June depending on weather condition.
First Group said nine bus services through the two counties had been cancelled or disrupted because of snow.
On Friday, Mr Snow told CNBC television that China had made "an important first step" by ending the policy of pegging the yuan to US dollar.
If they were branches of a tree weighed down with snow, they would be torn from the trunk in the first breeze.
Of getting lost at night in the snow near Wolverhampton as he drove the band to their first big audition at Decca, which they failed.
Residents of a remote Exmoor village, cut off by snow, claim they are "always the first to suffer" when it comes to the council's gritting service.
It is here, over the tops of the inevitable ducks, that Gokyo Ri first comes into view, its brown rounded form a contrast to the snow-covered, sharp-tipped lines of Cho Oyu beyond.
The state enforced its first travel ban on roads since the Blizzard of '78, a ferocious storm that dropped 27 inches of snow, packed hurricane-force winds and claimed dozens of lives.
If you want to talk about the weather, our number is 1-800-989-8255, 1-800-989-8255, 1-800-989-TALK. Getting ready to talk about the weather, it is - we did, as I say, back east we got our first taste of snow this - last night.
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