Those of you who live in the area know we don't get snow very often, so this is a big deal.  We woke up this morning to a winter wonderland.  There was about 1.5” to 2” of snow on the ground.  It was really cool.  According to the news, it's the most serious snow in the Austin area since 1985. At first I didn't believe that statement until I went outside and realized it was real snow.  Not just piles of sleet.  Actual honest to goodness snow!

After several attempts, Becky convinced me to walk through the park with her and we took some pictures of the kids attempting to “sled” down a hill on anything they could find including knee boards, kayaks, and cardboard boxes.  There's nothing quite as funny (and disturbing) as a little foul-mouthed kid flying down a hill in a cardboard box.  It was really cool to see the whole neighborhood out enjoying the rare day.

The top picture is a panorama I stitched together from 3 separate pictures, which turned out really well.  If you look closely, you can see the people walking back up the hill on the left are the same two people twice.  Ah, the wonders of the space-time continuum.

The next picture is of the little stream that runs through the park, which looked really awesome in the sunlight.  It's amazing how different everything looks with white on it.  They have been doing some construction next to the stream, which has been ugly and muddy, but with the snow covering it, it looks much better.  It reminds me of the old hymn, “Whiter Than Snow”.

Anyway, at this point, I'm just rambling to have enough text to make the pictures look like they were not just strewn about on the page.  If you looked at this entry early in the day, you probably got a look at it when it looked much worse.  The two zoomed in pictures are probably too big, but I wanted to make sure you could see the little kid in the box, who, when he got to the bottom, was dumped out of the box and into the mud.