SNOW!

Dallas had a record amount of snowfall over the past day and a half! DFW Airport reported 12.5", the most ever in a 24-hour period. It started snowing pretty hard Wednesday night and continued through Friday early morning. We definitely haven't seen this much snow around here before! We spent most of the day inside, but we did head to campus early in the morning (so I could turn something in before the weather got really bad), and then I ventured out in the afternoon for about an hour to take some pictures of the neighborhood and the campus.

This was early Thursday morning. It continued to snow pretty hard all day.



We saw this on our way to campus (only a few blocks from where we live), which made us laugh.



Here are some pictures of the park not too far from where we live. It was really beautiful.











Here are some pictures of the law school. I’d definitely never seen it look like this before!











And here are pictures of the main campus area. There were quite a few people out, playing with their dogs, throwing snowballs, making snowmen and other art, and enjoying the weather. It was fun to see. SMU (which cancelled classes yesterday afternoon and all day today) posted some pictures and video of the snow.















As I was walking around and taking pictures of the snow and the buildings, I enjoyed thinking about the encounter between man and nature. Man had built these beautiful buildings and inscribed part of his nature into them, and nature had come and covered them with its touch (which can be both wonderful and deadly so often). Man can insulate himself from nature, but he has absolutely no control over the greatness of it.







This is how it looked from our apartment yesterday afternoon.



Today, the temperature has risen and the snow is starting to melt. It was fun while it lasted. We were glad to be inside, though, that's for sure.

Nathan