Playing in the Snow!

SNOW!

Well, it certainly took its sweet time but the snow finally arrived, later and lighter than I'd hoped. Nonetheless, there was SNOW! It was the second time in my life that I'd actually been able to watch it fall and accumulate, so I of course had to have a snowball fight with my wife (we were celebrating our anniversary that day, too). It was really gorgeous to watch as it fell and we walked through the city to Rittenhouse Square, the flakes reflecting the street lamps and creating a dreamy effect. I would've brought my camera, but in the excitement of the moment, I left it in the apartment. So, you'll all just have to live with the photos that Corey, our lovely host, took of Sarah Adelaide trouncing me at snowball fighting. (I would like to point out in my defense that I grew up in Florida while she grew up in places like South Dakota, where if there's less than a foot of snow on the ground on Independence Day, it's a warm summer.)

Let It Snow

A week into my stay in Philadelphia and things are slowly coming together; there's been some tentative exploration and quite a lot of networking. The city's easy to navigate on foot, particularly near Center City, where everything conforms to a basic grid pattern with a few wayward streets here and there. My biggest challenge thus far has been remembering that the numbered streets run north to south and the named streets are the east-west thoroughfares. (I even had trouble with that last sentence.)

Part of the appeal to living in the northeast, though, has so far not panned out. As a native Floridian, I was looking forward to seeing some snow; but a week on and there's been been no appreciable accumulation of snow. There were some flurries yesterday but alas, it was too warm for the flakes to stick anywhere but the grass in the parks and on top of cars. Better than nothing, I suppose. I'm really crossing my fingers for something big this Saturday as the area's going to have a cold front moving through. We might get a few inches of snow out of it! I'm giddy at the prospect!

Hopefully, I'll have some photos of the City of Brotherly Love decked in white for you after this weekend. In the meantime, please enjoy a few pictures of Philly as seen from the South Street Bridge.

Back in the City Again

Quick update on my languishing blog.  I've made it to Philly with the Mrs. and it's GREAT to be back in a walkable city!  Living in the outer suburbs of Tampa breeds a certain disconnection with life, especially when the only car you have access to most of the time is a 1976 Datsun 280ZX that's on its last legs.  No more do I have to worry about that!  Bonus: There's actual winter here, although no snow.  Hopefully, that will be rectified sometime in the near future, although the ten-day outlook doesn't look promising.  Perhaps the second half of February will see a storm or two.