Things that I’ve learned from one inch of snow:

-snow is impossibly pretty while it’s falling and when it’s new
-snowflakes look nothing like the little paper things that you make in elementary school. 
When it’s snowing, it looks like the Big Vacuum Cleaner In The Sky has sneezed.
-it has to be very cold indeed for snow to stay on the ground
-snow can look normal and yet be frozen solid all the way through and, therefore, very
slippery
-ice is clear; step carefully
-one inch of snow does nothing to cushion you when, despite remembering the previous
two notes, you slip and fall in front of many people.  Nor does the coldness do anything to make it seem like you aren’t blushing; rather, it accentuates the redness.

It snowed here in Laon Monday night and stayed on the ground all day yesterday, and it has been snowing steadily since I got up this morning at 7 a.m.  It’s so pretty!  This is the most snow that I have seen outside of a ski resort since I was four!