ALERT: There Will Be No Snowstorn This May

The winds came in yesterday evening all gray and moist, and they laid everything flat. Grass, flowers, all tossed about, back and forth, and then laid down neatly on the ground.
The flowers on the big hydrangea in the front yard last most of their petals. Such was the timing of this storm: after the flowers had opened, before the petals naturally fell. One of the greatest joys of May in recent years has been to get as many people as possible under the hydrangea, and then shake the trunk as hard as possible. All the petals fall down upon us, our own little May blizzard.
But, this year, it is not to be.