Snow then Sun, and Termination Dust

Sunday, as the Pastors Wife drives us back to our housing we note the powder sugar effect to the mountaintops.  She tells us the locals call it "Termination Dust". That is it declares the END of Summer.
August 11,2011:  As we stood on the freight dock, the drizzly rain became WHITE, "Its snow!" exclaimed our whole crew at once.  Mixed in the drizzle was snow. It didn't stick.

August 12, 2011:  5:30 am on the bus to work, the mountains around us are covered with snow down to about the 3,000 foot level. The sky is perfectly clear blue, it is 44 degrees.
By 11:00 am it is nearly 70, I strip off my sweatshirt and long underwear shirt.
I call Mom to greet her with Happy Birthday (83 yrs young), she is on the beach in DelMar California with brother Dana. It is warmer here at the Denali Natl Park, Alaska then it is in California!