By Patric Hedlund, TME

It looked like Christmas as the mountain woke up last Sunday morning, May 7. The Mother’s Day Weather Fairies were visiting after five years of absence during the long drought.

“Heavy, wet snow was dropping by…” (please see below to view full stories and photographs)

Photo captions:

Dave Nelson’s discovery.Look closely.

Elizabeth Gilbert’s deck in the Pine Mountain community

Katherine King’s deck in the Pine Mountain community

Pixie convention in the snow seen through Gilbert’s windows

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This is part of the May 12, 2017 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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