Snow day
Residents of Leflore County woke up Monday morning to a winter wonderland. Children and adults bundled up in their winter gear and headed outside to enjoy the snow before it melted away. Many built snowmen, got into snowball fights and found makeshift sleds to slide down the only hill to be found in the flat Mississippi Delta — a levee.
Landi Mohamed and her daughter, Mary Landi, 6, put the finishing touches on a snowman in their Riverside Drive front yard.
Scott Hampton appears to be begging for mercy from his snowball-wielding son, Knox, 5, in Clerico Park.
Andrew Brock, left, joins his parents, Romney and Don Brock, for a picture with the snowmen they had built. Andrew and Romney both got the day off from Pillow Academy, where he is a sophomore and she is a high school English teacher; Don, an attorney, was planning to go into work later.
Mari Parker Makamson, left, and Macy Lamb get ready to slide down the Yazoo River levee on East Claiborne Avenue.
Sisters Mary Haley Flautt, left, and Millie Vemer pal around while walking along Grand Boulevard.
Melton Garrett Sr. with the Greenwood Public Works Department watches as a city trash truck lifts a discarded Christmas tree that’s covered with snow.
Erica Leach Howard says that she’s like the postman: Neither rain, sleet nor snow will deter her from her daily walk.
Cortez Delaney is bundled up for the weather as he reads from his cellphone while sitting in front of the Greenwood-Leflore Public Library.
A large snowman stands in the front yard of a home on River Road.
Bristol Hammons stands next to a snowman she built.
Standing next to his snowman and ready to throw a snowball is 5-year-old Kameron Holmes of Itta Bena.
Ella Roberson, left, and Mary Roberson have a snowball fight near the Yazoo River Trail.
Harris Thach, 4, gets a taste of snow.
Having fun sledding are, from left, Madeline Carroll, Jon Hartly Slater, Sarah Douglas Thach, Anna Clair Swayze and Annie Powers.
From left, Amanda Hicks, Delilah Hutchings and Cacy Beavers enjoy the snowy weather in Greenwood Monday by riding sleds down a levee near the Yazoo River Trail and Arboretum.
Margie Barger and her eldest son, Brandt, 6, get busy early Monday morning building snowmen at the family’s home on Riverside Drive following the rare snowfall overnight.
Airrin Metz introduces her 2-year-old son, John Clayton, to his first experience with snow. An estimated 1 to 2 inches of snow provided a blanket of beauty and plenty of fun for children and adults in and around Greenwood.
Neely Jordan holds Roux, a 9-week-old Catahoula Leopard Dog, after he finished an initially tentative but soon exuberant run through the snow at the Yazoo River levee along East Claiborne Avenue. With Neely is Molley Blackstone, a fellow seventh-grader at Pillow Academy.
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