Snow!

The snow finally arrived. It wasn't much. What was the Big Story was the cold. I've never seen -11C in my car the 12 years I've been in Strasbourg. It was frigidly cold and my car battery died one of the cold day. We were having a very mild winter when this big Siberian chill swept down. Eastern Europe was having record deaths and terrible frost bite (more because of their large homeless populations in Russian and Ukraine). We just buckled down here in Alsace.

Talia's "extreme" gymnastics snow angel.

Someone's about to get it from Ronnie!

This is the snowman that Davina made. He only came inside for the photo and then was relegated to the balcony, where he stayed for quite awhile.

Here's the frozen tributary of the Rhine.

Note the birds walking on the ice.