jan, 20th - flurries in the park....

 day 1069 / 168:

oh what a difference a week (and two days) makes.......with flurries of snow all over London, we headed to the park over the weekend to build snowmen and have snowball fights. i can't say that our childhoods in the Southern Hemisphere taught us much about building snowmen....our attempts were feeble. so instead, we did a tour of the park, meeting and greeting other people's masterpieces. we'll need to get practising so that we can build the 'family of snow-people' that Limi requested.

and afterwards, we retreated for hot chocolate and marshmallows.....

we are still in awe of snow and happy that we now have a good excuse to go and act like children in the park......that's what a childhood of snow-deprivation will do to you.

i hope that your weekend was just as magical. x

p.s. Limi was fascinated by the bird prints in the snow and later, at bedtime, told A. that because it was snowing outside maybe we could go out and build them a house so that they didn't have to be in the snow.....and, we could also give them big shoes.

feb, 5th - it's snowing....

day 702:

snow......soft, white, fluffy snow......it started drifting down on Saturday night and covering every surface. i was tempted to wake Limi up just to show her but waited until the morning when I could throw open the shutters and hear her say: Snow! It's Snowing Mama!

we threw on our warm clothes straight away and went out onto the street to play. 

after a childhood in the tropics, i'll never get over loving snow

tues, 30th - winter wonderland....

day 290:

woke up to a winter wonderland today.......

like my waxing lyrical about autumn (see day 239), no matter how many times i experience snow, i still feel like a giddy child when i open the shutters and see the world turned into a quiet and simplified landscape....

we didn't take Limi to the park....not that much fun when she's still mainly crawling...but i can't wait to do this with her (pic from last year).....

for some whimsically beautiful pics of this year's snow in Amsterdam, look here.