snow!

I woke this morning to a certain white glow through the curtains--I knew that glow. Ran to the living room, opened the blinds, craned my neck to see the ground three stories down: snow!

It falls, or rather, it dances in the air currents of our courtyard, and coats the world in white. Welcome, December. Welcome, winter. Welcome, beauty in the darkest month of the year, you giver-of-reflected-light, you chilly wonder.