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This city is different in winter

Yeah, I know. It’s not technically winter yet. But let us for a moment heed the wisdom of Wikipedia, which tells us:

Almost all English-language calendars, going by astronomy, state that winter begins on the winter solstice, and ends on the spring equinox. Calculated more by the weather, it begins and ends earlier….

Can’t argue with that, can you? So, winter. It looks good on this city.

Took that on an auxiliary campus for my university, where I have my e-society class. I have to train across down, then walk a couple kilometers from the train station. On the day I took this pic, I blasted lots of Viking metal through my headphones, as I scanned the treelines for armies in lying wait, ready to charge across the snow and do battle before attending the day’s lectures.

That’s a beautiful one I’m sure will wind up in liner notes for an album of mine one day. Yes, I still believe CDs—er, albums—will have liner notes. Geez, getting off track here. Check out this picture of Marienplatz at night, all spruced up for a Christmas market. (I think this was on the walk home from getting my glasses fixed.)

And this last one I took from my balcony, looking toward the campus buildings. It was a beautiful snowstorm.

Now excuse me while I go listen to metal about snow.