SNOW!!!

We had our first snow of the year here in Paris today. When we woke up this morning it was coming down lightly, but Lynna's parents told me that it was snowing a lot harder earlier in the morning. After about 15 minutes of small snow flurries, the snowflakes started to get bigger. But the ground wasn't cold enough for any of the snow to really build up -- it pretty much melted immediately.

I think it's a bit unusual for it to snow here this early in the winter. When I was working in Paris in December 1998, it snowed quite a bit and everyone at that time told me it was unusual. Luckily there isn't much rain or snow forecast for the next week or so. It was fun to watch the snow coming down this morning, especially for us Californians. Here are a couple of pictures from our apartment window and from the front gate of our apartment complex. The last one looks a lot worse than it really was.