Snow, snow, snow

This week's snowfall has been a real eye opener. Snow is one thing I just know will happen, along with dropping temperatures and wind.
Aside from my little incident with a snowdrift this week, it has been a week of wonder. There of course, was the beauty of the wet snow lying heavily on tree branches - the white and black an Ansel Adams contrast in color-or lack of. But the most exciting part has been observing people who have never seen snow.
Take that to a 15 month-old child who stared at a handful of it in her mother's hand. She stuck her nose in it to smell it, grabbed it and put some in her mouth. I couldn't help but wonder what was going through her mind when it had no smell, no taste and disappeared in her hand. It magically appears and just as magically disappears, although sometimes not soon enough.
Then there was the couple form Florida, the wife never having seen or been in snow. She was posing for many a picture and making plenty of snowballs. The student from Burma kept saying "snow is very cold, very cold, very cold."
A classmate from Florida and I have had conversatins about the snow and cold, he doesn't understand how people can live under these conditions and I don't understand how people can life in heat and humidity. I suppose it's all about what you know and grow to love.