In New Zealand we have just had a big blanket of snow fall over most of the country. For many of us in the cities it has been a novelty and a talking point.
There are many things to say about snow but one of them has to be the beauty that it gives to even the most mundane of outlooks. Even a letter box looks cool with a slab of snow icing on top of it. Trees look great too either being laden with clumps of snow balanced on their evergreen branches or the deciduous trees like skeletons frosted white.
What adds to the beauty and mystique of snow is the silence with which it falls and the quieting effect it has when fallen. I like the way Simon and Garfunkel refer to snow in their famous song "I am a Rock" as " a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow". Isn't it precious to wake up in the morning and open the curtain to a snowy blanket that settled in the night without a sound!
I think in NZ right now, snow might just be our favourite form of H2O.
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