snow!

snow today! big fat flakes of it, which somehow made me insanely happy, even when they got into my eyelashes and down the back of my neck while i cleaned my car off at 6:30 tonight in heels and work clothes (my business pants are drenched and hanging on the chair in front of me as i write). it blanketed thickly and quickly.

on the way home, it turned into rain...

it reminded me of the time it snowed, and goobs and i (me in my glasses and both of us in our household sweats) walked down to the Schlossgarten and made snow angels, and had a massive snowball fight. i think we scared the nice couples who were there to watch the snow fall onto the brightly-lit jewel of a city below.

before that, in the fall, we had stood together at the railing above the aqueducts, contemplating the beginning of a semester. the trees above us were golden, but somehow, the trees next to us were not. we realized the the spotlighting from below made the leaves glow with in a gold light, and it reminded me of that old fairy tale, about the 8 dancing princesses and their dancing slippers - the one where the 8 sisters find a city beneath the floorboards, and they pass trees with silver leaves and trees with golden leaves, cross the river to meet the 8 princes they dance with every night til dawn.

snow makes me fanciful.