and now for something completely different

Snow! (yes, I was lying about the completely different.)

This morning it seemed like it would be a clear day. Here is the vast wave of the snow, with sun shining on it.



(Here is our mailbox this morning. It is like a war correspondent: embedded.)



But now! Now it is thickly, whitely snowing again! And accumulating! Snow, go fall on California as rain--they need you there.

This has got me wondering what they did about snow in the nineteenth century. I know they used sleighs to get around, but even...