Your photos were a balm to my heart. Outside, the last two or so inches of a record October snowfall are falling, very beautifully, but weighting down the still fully-leafed, partly-green branches of the Norway maples. There's already a branch the size of a decent sapling lying in the front yard from recent high winds. I only hope it may not be joined by any more before this all melts or gets rained away later in the week.

P.