pictures--18 of walk in the snow and two bonus

i grew up in alabama.  we had three or four huge "snowstorms" in my whole life there from ages seven to eighteen, and they  (a) were never storms and (b) never produced very much actual snow.  so snow is special to me, and i still kind of feel like a tourist, at least when there's a lot of it.  one year isn't quite long enough to become inured to its charms.  i'm still excited by the river frozen over with ice on it, by snowflakes landing on your sleeve that look like a perfect star of david when you squint at them, by the look of snow falling thick through the halo of a streetlight.

so it snowed tons new year's eve and yesterday i made wax come on a walk with me and the dog down to the cathedral bridge and back home through the university, and took pictures so i could share the excitement. 

also, it was the last night of channukah last night so i took a picture of my menorah all lit up.  i had nine dip-dyed candles left, so i saved them for the last night.  it was very pretty.

( come for a walk with us? )

meta, aka (in this case) exaggerate-the-fandom-trends

"this is the story i [pick one:  totally would write if i had more time;  have been dying for somebody else to write for me;  think would be really great but don't dare do and hope some other member of the fandom will take over for me;  dreamed up last night at a slash get-together while high on sugar and pot brownies; wrote in chat a few minutes ago and desired to share with you all the delicious crackedness of].

( two paragraphs of rambly outline-story-thing )

poem: the first date of randy and mr. big

i've been asked to record for posterity this little poem that i wrote in honour of randwise_gamgee finally finding a gay boy to date and getting laid, even though he lives in hicksville:

twas a couple of days after new year's, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for randy, who was typing, but Cock was still asleep.

it may leave something to be desired in a lot of areas, but it definitely captured the moment, anyway.