Spring Schneesturm

Well, I fell off the blog wagon a bit, I suppose it's time to reassert myself. I'll start with a brief lame post about the weather and some pictures to indeed confirm our continued existence (sorry, but I have to start slowly).

Last report was our Paris trip in early March (!), I'm way overdue to report on the following weekend's trip to Rome. And then we celebrated a big Christian holiday with 2.1 billion other people in mid-March, the weekend that generated the following pictures.

Zürich's 07/08 winter enters the books as a mild one, with January and February temps mostly in the 40's. As is common almost anywhere these days, several residents have denounced the winter as atypical, overly warm and snow-free. But hey, timing is everything and we couldn't have planned our move from the Midwest U.S. any better: so many days of bitter temps, Chicago receiving nearly 60 inches of snow this winter and Madison, WI, smashing its previous record with over 100 inches this year! Congratulations to friends and family for surviving!

Somewhat surprisingly, our March temperatures in Zürich dipped a bit down closer to freezing and Easter weekend saw our first Schneesturm since living in Kloten back in Nov/Dec. It caught us late Sunday afternoon during a walk somewhat far afield with Mr. Hobbes but, nostalgic for a good snowball fight, we prolonged our trek instead of bee lining home. A few pictures follow and I'll get back on track with more a substantive post ASAP... http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=2hd8fyj.8d39r8xr&x=0&y=45e2qa&localeid=en_US