I’m up in the Pacific Northwest right now visiting my beloved son-in-law’s family. We are dangerously close to the home of the my favorite hockey team, the Trail Smoke Eaters of the British Columbia Hockey League, and if it were summer I I would have made them drive me up there. Right now everything is snow covered and spectacularly beautiful:

It made me think of my very favorite snow scene at Rice, one that more accurately captures the experience than the photos we have of significant snowfalls. I don’t know who they are or what date is but I strongly suspect it was 1994:

We take what we can get.