Photographs and Ticket Stubs

It snowed today.  Not insubstantially.  Great big, wet flakes fell from the sky for most of the day, covering campus with a strange opacity I’ve never experienced before.  Fall colors have been late this year.  The virginia creeper and sumac have turned red and about half the maples have turned shades of yellow, orange, and red, but the rest of the trees are still green.  Usually snowflakes alight on bare, black branches, accenting their darkness and creating a world of contrast.  Today, the snow gathered on red, orange, yellow and green leaves, oddly transforming our world into a blend of winter and fall.  Honestly, all I can say is that it was weird.  Distracting.  Awesome.

(Of course I want my warm, purely autumn days back before I’m ready to commit to winter but today was cool to see.)