First Snow

Seattle has a pretty temperate climate. Famous for its rain, our city rarely gets cold enough to support snow and even more rarely allows snow to accumulate. Today was one of those rare days - take a look at this:

Our balcony with Christmas decorations and our pots of herbs. At this point we were thinking, "oh, it's just a light dusting of snow."

A couple of hours later, Ryan started to get nervous with memories of Syracuse. He told me about his mom's Christmas lights buried in mounds of snow. I think Ryan has nothing to worry about--a few inches of snow is nothing compared to the feet of snow in the 'Cuse.

Soma's Snow Scooping Technique