Oooh, winter

As most of you Michigan-based people will have noticed if you surfaced at all this weekend, we got our first real snow. The type that starts to stick. The type that begins to accumulate. The type that I love, love, love at least until January 2 when I've had it with winter.

So, I woke up this morning and looked out the window trying to decide if I wanted to get up then or sleep horribly late. It wasn't doing anything. Maybe raining a little, but a pretty uninspiring day from the looks of it. I stayed in bed. When I woke up again, maybe an hour later, it was snowing. Those HUGE fat gigantic flakes that sort of drift down and make it look like a cartoon snowstorm or something outside. I loved it. I probably just watched it snow for a good 10 minutes.

Now, normally I'd decide that the snow was a perfect excuse to stay all snuggly and warm in my bed and I'm sure that the next time this happens (or if it's still happening tomorrow morning) I will ignore the beauty of it and roll over to go back to sleep. However, today it was still novel. Today it was still pretty and the cold, crisp, snow-smelling air made me want to get up and go out in it. So, I did. I used the "excuse" of needing to go grade papers which I always do at ERC since I get nothing done at home and went out to enjoy the snow. I even snagged a seat by the windows which, sadly, was really cold since it's drafty, BUT I got to watch people go by all bundled up as the flakes drifted down. And they keep coming too. It's snowed all day and is STILL going strong. I think the ground is too warm for it to really stick, but it's so pretty, at least for now.

Yeah, I'll be sick of it soon enough, but even at this point in my life there's something still wonderful about the first real snow of the season.

:)