first snowflake!

today i went out to shovel the driveway before work. i know that later in the season this will make me grumble, but today was the first time i had to shovel and it wasn’t bitterly cold and it was nice to get some exercise and when i was done, i stopped and stood still and let the snowflakes fall on me and tried to see if they were just little balls of ice or if they were really flakes. there were a few true flakes that i could actually count all 6 arms of. they are so beautiful! you see them so often in artwork that when you see one in real life and notice that they really do look like that, it’s just kind of amazing.