Yesterday was 'Heilige Drei Koenige' day here in Austria. A day when all Austrians sleep in and then dress their children up like the three kings, one in blackface (which decade am I in anyway?), and send them out to walk around the city with papier mache lanterns. The UN does not observe this holiday. So when the alarm clock struck 6am, the darling husband woke me with a very welcome hot cup of coffee and the surprising but equally welcome phrase, "It snowed."
Boy did it!
Apparently when it is a holiday, they are a bit later in the whole 'plow the roads' thing. I was one of three people out in this at 7am, not even a car on the road.
The walk took a lot longer than usual what with the icy patches and climbing over piles of snow, so I cheated and took the Ubahn half way to work. I did make up for it by walking home after work, but the piles of snow and the ice were still there even at 6pm.
That is freaking pretty!
ReplyDeleteMamacita says---What a gorious scene in Vienna! Now maybe Andi can jump on the back of a snow plow and help the street workers move some piles. He's a pro at that. I'm glad you take your camera on your way to work.
ReplyDeleteMamacita meant gorgeous, NOT gorious. Oops!
ReplyDeleteMamacita's college roomie/SIL notes that 'gorious' is the obvious combination of 'glorious' and 'gorgeous'. We are college graduates, you know....
ReplyDeleteStrange, I would have assumed gorious means gory, full of gore. I was trying to see if there were any zombies in that shot.
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