BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — Late fall is here in the Treasure Valley.
Crisp air, changing colors, and while many are focused on raking up the last of this seasons fallen leaves, if you drive by 17th and Lemp in the North End, one man is breaking the ice, on winter.
"It was a shocker the first time I saw it to all of the sudden have snow," says neighbor Jennifer Bury.
Leaving some neighbors puzzled.
"Did it snow last night? Why isn't there snow on my lawn? Oh...I see...oh that's wonderful!" says North End neighbor, Nancy Oppenheimer.
But what you see right now, neighbors say, is just the tip of the iceberg.
"Right around Christmas time there will be a huge ramps so the neighbor next door slay will go get pickup truck loads of snow and they create this huge ramp and the kids come out and sled down it and it's wonderful," Bury says.
And while neighbors say these mid-day temperatures may appear to have the snow on thin ice, they say when the snow maker starts, while snow is flying, so is holiday cheer,
"Sometimes kids will come by you know from walking home from school or something and if they know them they will come knock on the door and ask if they can play in the snow," says Oppenheimer.
"It's really pretty when they first do it because you get crystals on the trees and you actually even sometime get crystals on your car if you park your car close enough," Bury says.
"But it's nice and it creates a nice winter wonderland atmosphere."
While many are hoping to fend off scraping windshields and sidewalks a little bit longer.
As for this block of the north end, they say, let it snow!
"It is wonderful because all I have to do is look across the street and get the snow and I don't have to shovel it so I love it," Bury says.
If you want to catch a peek of this winter wonderland, the homeowner assures CBS 2 News that his family will continue to keep this home in the Christmas spirit even past our first official snowfall.
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