Snow!

Always cause for exclamation marks around here. So far it's only sticking on top of the plant pots, but the first flakes lasted long enough for Sparky to pounce as they hit the deck.

Weather is supposed to get colder, but the forecasters are hedging about the extent and duration of the snow, unable to give precise boundaries because of the many micro-climates in Puget Sound. Only occasionally do we get a convergence of weather that brings snow everywhere.

Decorated boats are parading toward the marinas at the end of the lake, after an evening cruise. Inside it's a good night to read - I'm nearly to the end of a dense, fascinating history by David Levering Lewis called God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570 - 1215. For a tangentially related article, check out the December 4 entry on this blog - the one called "Nobody expected this!"