Snow?! In Late March?!

My delicate little snowflakes--

Can we all agree that Mother Nature is indeed the maddest of scientists? I mean, here it is late March, and we've got a snowstorm on our doorsteps. Yesterday it was sunny and 50+ degrees, but today...today we get snow. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch warned us to expect 6-11 inches. Six-to-eleven inches? Why do I feel like some braggity guy is writing their weather headlines?

Anyway, reading about weather is one thing, but seeing it is another. (Exception: hurricanes. News stations need to stop sending their reporters to cover hurricanes. Oh, it's windy and rainy? Now there's a revelation! Leave hurricane coverage to homemade YouTube videos of idiots who decide to surf in a hurricane, not a reporter holding on to a rail.)

With that said, here's my little corner of the world during the snow, with the time taken (24-hour) in the caption:

Looking down my street (the park is behind me):

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Looking up my street, toward the park (my house is behind me):

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Entering the park (that's a gigantic urn up ahead; it's filled with flowers all spring and summer):

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Spring's most cheerful harbinger, the daffodil:

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In the park, looking down my street (That big ol' building on the left is a former abbey that was converted into eight condos--it's called Abbey on the Park, and it's gorgeous. It dwarfs all the houses facing the park, all of which dwarf my house.):

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Missouri Avenue, flanked by the park on one side and the fancy-schmancy park-facing houses on the other:

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Casa de Lucy from the front (sorry, no 0800 picture):

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(See that downstairs curtain pulled to the side? If you look closely, you can see Lucy's face at the bottom. 

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Weather.com says that it will snow for the next 24-36 hours. I am serious. I've been taking some other shots while I've been out and about, so look for some randoms a little later on (maybe tomorrow).

Stay warm, my shnuggly little kittens.

Shnuggly.