Don't know if you were the same as I was as a kid, but how exciting that first snow storm was. I suspect that our weather forecast were based mainly on what our parents came up with back in those days as we didn't have all the detail we have today.
I do remember getting up in the morning and looking out the window and seeing the snow and being so happy about it. Of course my first thoughts were to go out and make a snow man. How times change.
We have been forewarned by Sharon Meyer that tonight there is a possibility of some Mountain Snow, which means, hopefully, somebody will be sending me a photo of the white snow on top of the mountain with the colored leaves below it. Whether this will effect fletchtb's daily trip over the Notch, I don't know, but I am sure he will make us aware when the Notch closes.
We won't need to worry about that first snow storm down here for a while though as the usual saying is once that snow appears on top of the mountain, six weeks later it is here in the valley. (Most years that is)
Below is a photo taken during an early October snow storm when the leaves had not started to fall yet. My sister took it and it is the big old maple tree in her front yard. She had it enlarged and gave it to us one Christmas:
(http://www.vtgrandpa.com/photos/albums/forum_photos/2008_10_02_001.sized.jpg)