Winter is Here to Stay

It just snowed!

Now normally, I am very opposed to the idea of snow.
It's cold. It makes your shoes and pant-hems soggy. It makes getting around by bike a little more dangerous. It's cold. It turns dirty in a couple of days. It's cold.

But this snow did not stick. Not even a little bit.
And it was all fluffy, fat flakes, drifting gently down through the street lights.
Today was also the first day of the Christmas Market, and the first day that all of the christmas lights got turned on, so as long as it doesn't become a regular thing, it was quite nice.

I may have also felt a little less angry about it just because people got so excited. It doesn't usually snow here, so when it began to fall, there was a kind of collective excitement and a city-wide gasp. "Waaoah. Il neige!"