
Photograph of a snowy bench by the idealist on Flickr
Oh, Mother Nature. You bring us a couple inches of snow, make the city pretty for a brief spell, and then you send in the rain and turn up the heat a little, turning everything into slush.
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Photograph of a snowy bench by the idealist on Flickr
Oh, Mother Nature. You bring us a couple inches of snow, make the city pretty for a brief spell, and then you send in the rain and turn up the heat a little, turning everything into slush.
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