Hooray! It’s snowing in Boston!
Last night and today I went out walking around Allston to explore this new world of low-density crystalline water. I walked, stepped, kicked, and jumped through all kinds of snow. Still-falling light powder, week-old crunchy crystals, blobs of ice, snow with salt, snow with dirt, slippery snow, rock-hard snow, dry snow, clean snow. Most of all that clear slippery wet mush that seems endemic to well-traveled sidewalks.
The snow I most enjoyed stepping through was a four inch thick composite of dried leaves and powder.
The snow I thought most beautiful was the paper-smooth dusting on an open field. I felt shameful and profane for tramping through it, marring it with my ridiculous dirty footsteps.
The snow that hurt the most was the one millimeter of powder concealing wet ice. Classic pratfall.
I put a couple of pictures in my Flickr album for Boston. I think a more talented photographer could make something pretty with that blue house.