Going out to my car for 15 minutes of pushing snow off my car led to a beautiful Christmas-y sight.
I made it to campus and saw many more great sights.
From my lab you can see just how heavy that snow was on those poor tree limbs. They all look like weeping willows.
Eventually the snow stopped falling so the sidewalks and roads could finally clear up. But the snow never came up but so the snow remained the rest of the day.
The next morning I got to see the sun again!
There was fog out for a while, but an hour or so later the sky was bright blue and clear as could be. It made for an even more beautiful day. I had to get my fill of the snow covered trees because with the snow out, I knew it wouldn't last long.
The high mountains of the continental divide are completely covered in snow. I had a feeling that I wasn't going to see them any other way for a good six months.
And a rare sight: snow-covered Flatirons. One day of sunshine has the brown rock shining through once again.
After a day of sunshine, half of the snow was already gone. Looking out my window I realized the truth behind a key aspect of Colorado real-estate: why it's important to know if the yard is north-facing or south-facing. One side of the street is stuck with inches of snow long after the other.
