It descended, a gentle embrace, a white revelation...

The snow came tonight, on my birthday, and it fell in slow spirals, lazy white tufts nestling in between hair and the folds of cloth...
I ran out into the courtyard when it first happened, and it actually gathered and stuck for the first time... we raised our hands to the sky and watched the white falling to meet us, and it was beautiful.
Later, when I went back to my apartment, my neighbours came knocking with excitement at the snow, and I went out for a second time. When I went out, I discovered that there was enough to make mini snowballs, and it covered the sidewalks in a thin dusty layer of white! Running around in the dark, with the white falling silently through the darkness, illuminated by the yellow lamp-lights, was one of the first joys of the winter season. More people were peeking through their curtains and sticking their heads out at the noise we were making, and so more people started coming out into the courtyard to play. When we finally came back from our little excursion in the neighbourhood, back to the rez courtyard, quite a group had gathered, and they took a grand photo right there under the lights and snow. Haha, someone said "Happy Birthday" to me and suddenly the they all started singing Happy Birthday to me *wriggle* There's just some things that makes you feel like the world is a better place, and one of them, I discovered, is hearing a group of mostly strangers suddenly singing Happy Birthday to you in the night (with the first snow descending upon us, a blessing from the sky)...