Happy Thanksgiving!

When Li-Fu started his car in the morning, I saw there was a thin layer of ice on the windshield. We haven't had any snow yet and the weather this week so far has been very satisfactory. So I guess the ice comes from the frozen dew. I don't remember exactly when it started snow last year but it is never too late to have snow, especially here in Iowa. Everyday would be like what I read in Andersen's Little Match Girl when I was young.

I was born and grew up in a city where snow visits only once in ten years. So obviously snow is a precious thing to see and I had always dreamed about having a white christmas and that'd be so awesome. But when I experienced the winter in Iowa, I feel that too much snow may not be that awesome; Sometimes it could even be terrible. With tons of snow pouring from sky, walking/driving becomes a painful task. I'm so not good at balancing my body and my priority when walking in the snow is not to fall in public.

Another thing I found about snow is you gotta have your sunglass with you. Strong reflection from snow will cause serious damage to your eyes. So what I usually see in every snowy winter is extremely slippery/icy road with dirty mud/salt and girls with huge sunglasses that can almost cover half of their faces, which is not that close to the white winter that I had imagined. Winter here has stronger flavor compared to the mild one back home. Sometimes I think: isn't this just like the old saying "grass is always greener on the other side"? :D

Anyway, it's Thanksgiving - the time to give thanks!!

Okay, I'd like to thank for being able to see flying snowflakes decorating the beautiful winter season. If I never came here, I would miss so much and my world wouldn't be the same. Looking back to where I was years ago, I feel that I've been truly blessed to have all these precious experience in my life. It is really a childhood dream come true. And actually, it is much more than what I asked for: I not only get to see snow;I get to see a whole different world. And I'm really thankful for that. : )

(The picture was taken last year near my apartment.)