sometimes so little can take so much

Today, I wrote five definitions.

we're having honest to goodness winter here

It's a bit unexpected after the last three winters, which have been quite mild. It snowed over the weekend (enough so that on Monday there was still the remnant of a snowman in the square in front of our building, even though all the rest had melted), and again today. I rather like living in a place where it tends to snow in the evenings and is all pretty for a couple of hours but then is completely melted by the time we're heading out to the office the next morning. I took some pictures on Sunday when it was snowing and accidentally downloaded one of them off the camera today when I was trying to get some other pictures, so here it is, the view from our kitchen window: