Except for the sound of a lone shoveler across the street, the Slope is hushed this morning. Sidewalks are thick with snow, tree branches iced with white frosting. For those of us who didn’t fly off to beach vacations, this is our reward.

It is Day Five of school vacation and children will rise happily, enthralled with what went on while they slept. The Third Street hill in Prospect Park is primed for giddy children on sleds, who won’t feel cold temperatures as they fly down the hill fast as comets.

Even the garbage pails awaiting pick-up look beautiful in the snow. Everything does. Winter has returned to our city.

Yours from Brooklyn,
OTBKB