Konfetti

Oh well... - The day has come that the guys back home celebrate Fasnacht and start Die drey scheenschte Dääg on Monday early morning and as always a week after most others had theirs. How lovely is it to walk through the dark streets, stump through moutains of Konfetti, listen to the Ruesse and Pfyffe that resound in the narrow alleys... and all that in the most perfect weather conditions one can imagine...

Konfetti or rather confetti - at least of those I seem to have had enough this year already. Even far away from home. Tons of them danced in the sky when we welcomed the new year on Times Square and the ball dropped. And even more rained from the skyscrapers when the Giants celebrated their XLII Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots (February 3) during their celebration Ticker Tape Parade ending at City Hall Park that happened February 5 (see for instance here or here).

Yesterday, even something else was "in the air": veritable snow flakes swirled through the air during the day a couple times when temperatures had a sudden drop. Not quite wintery enough... yet, but a start! The windchill this morning that made the temperatures feel like below zero degree Fahrenheit (= -17.78 degrees Celsius!) at least keeps my hopes alive.