Snow day? only for Snowmen!

Woah!

No one thought the snow would come precisely because it was forecasted. It's as if the very prediction of snow was doomed, only it actually did snow. All day in fact. Big, fat, fluffy snowflakes. Loads of them falling down clinging together, falling oh-so-much-lighter than water.

It hailed pencil points that tik-tiked on my windshield on my way to work, and then, while i squeezed orange juice for mimosas and doled out ribs and steaks, Atlanta was inundated with cold water molecules with white parashuts . (spell check refuses to spell that corrected and I have refused go on trying!) In an hour my car was under an inch, nearly 2 when my shift ended a couple hours later.

Atlanta was confused. Atlanta babbled about it all day, notably mouth full of grilled chicken salad and Hawaiian rib eye. Snippets of conversations about snow could be picked up during any particular circulation of the dining room. We twittered. We took photos. Some build snowmen, which will be the sole survivors of the parashut brigades. There is one at the intersection of Freedom Parkway and North Avenue. Built perhaps by initially-flabbergasted then voraciously over-zealous kids or unusually giddy homeless people. It's little stick nose comes out at an angle.

Today the sun bore down and quickly melted any snow not protected by the shade. Thousands of Atlanteans called a snow day, while by 10 am all the ice had melted off their driveways. By Noon, the interstate looked normal, except for the odd car that would pass you covered in 3 inches of snow, slags of snow flying off the hood. One car I followed for a while had a shoe-box sized blob of slow at the bottom of his rear windshield. At each curve of the highway it would oscillate back and forth like a bubble in a leveller tool. I kept going "oooh ooh! it's going to fall off!!" I decided after a time it was no longer safe driving behind this woman who didn't bother to remove any of the 30 lbs or so of snow that covered her car.

Went for a remarkable hike that was followed by lots and lots of cake. And kir royals and salzburg coffee!! Oh when will I learn!?!?

Feeling particularly good and free.

Croftee---------------->

All icecycles and crunchy ground and squidggyness. Stunning day!