Day 3.305: Last of the first snow of the season

Snowmen are great!  They are fun to make, fun to decorate, fun to look out at and...they keep the snow around for a little longer.  This was this morning.  This evening there is a little smudge on the ground.  Tomorrow it will probably be gone.

Veterans' Day is one of the days I feel most like a foreigner here.  Although, the UK will have been marking Remembrance Day today, here the focus is very much on those who have served or are serving in the US Military - it brings out the best of pride and nationalism and little (that I have seen) of the worst of those things.  Still, I am not an American and on days like today I feel it more than on others.