I am still surprised by all the snow and frost this winter. What a shocker that it can be both cold and pretty, not just cold and ugly like it was for most of last year. The first few weeks back have been filled with only occassional days above freezing at all. So much so that I have twice now stumbled across ducks way across campus drinking from pools of water on the side of sidewalks. Slightly salty probably beats pure ice. Apparently the campus pond was so frozen that people were out walking across it, although I am much too much of a wimp to partake.

This was taken at a little past noon, right before the sidewalks began to be properly cleared of all the snow. It was the first time in the last year and a half that I have been here that school has been completely cancelled due to weather. But alas, I only had the joy of missing a single discussion with no respite from any of my otherwise hard classes. Woe is me, stuck in a bunch of snow, intimidated by the ducks that taunt me from the freezing water.