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You know when they crack open geodes and find the inside lined with crystals? Imagine huge mounds of those crystals in non-sparkly brown and gray. That’s what lines the streets right now, where the old, dirty snow has been plowed into mounds, and then melts away into crystal-looking shapes.

A fresh layer of snow is lovely, but we rarely get that. Instead, we have old, slushy, dirty, brownish-gray snow/dirt/salt leftovers. I guess that’s the difference between vacationing in the snow and living in it.

Now, if you venture out into to the mountains and trails, the snow (as I understand it) is still beautiful and white. I’ll have to get Jeff to get you some pics of that, ’cause I won’t be doing a whole lot of “venturing” until I can be sure my face won’t freeze right off of my skull.