RANGELEY – For Dallas Plantation Town Clerk Patricia Ellis, Wednesday’s snowfall was gorgeous.

“Every branch, every tree, every leaf has about a half inch of snow on it; it’s gorgeous,” she said of the snowfall the area was receiving – the season’s first – late Wednesday morning.

A couple of inches had fallen by midmorning on Chick Hill in Rangeley, said National Weather Service observer Jerome Guevremont.

“An additional inch, or maybe more, may come, but we’re getting a little wind, so it’s hard to tell how much is windblown,” he said.

An October snow wasn’t bothering him, though. “We like snow up here,” he said.

The Chick Hill site of the town’s wastewater treatment plant where Guevremont serves as superintendent is about 300 feet higher than the village.

By midmorning, snow in the village was mixing with rain, said interim police Chief Dennis Leahy.

State Department of Transportation trucks were treating roads from Eustis toward the Canadian border at midmorning, said Norm Haggan, manager for the Western Region MDOT.

The trucks were mostly covering the roads with salt instead of plowing, he said.

As noon neared, temperatures in Eustis settled at a cool 32 degrees, said Betty Wing, another observer. Snow landed in the area but it was expected to melt, she said.

“Winter is too long when it comes this early,” Wing said, recalling a foot of snow in a previous October. “It stayed and never melted . . . it was a long winter.”