Observations on snow

Last night I took the dog for a walk around 9:00 and it wasn't dark outside. It was more like a cloudy afternoon.

Alarmed.

Ok, probably not crazy. The snow is reflecting light, our pond is reflecting light, the complete cloud cover is reflecting light, but no one told me about this. It's something I've never heard about, read about and really never thought about. It was very cool, but kinda disorienting.

Today at lunch it was snowing and the snowflakes were about the size of (cross sections of) english peas and when they hit the window of my car, right before they melted, I could see the shape of the snowflake. I had *no* idea snowflakes looked like snowflakes at the macroscopic level (I've seen them look like snowflakes on a microscopic level.) So these weensy little works of art were falling all over the place and then melting. Andrew Goldsworthy is ripping off the snowflakes' work and Goldsworthy's just not as good.