Happy new year!

"What does this song mean? My whole life I don't know what this song means. Should auld acquaintance be forgot. Does that mean that we should forget old acquaintances, or does it mean if we happened to forget them, we should remember them, which is not possible because we already forgot?"

-Harry Burns, When Harry Met Sally

Castles and cities

"Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor." - Vera Nazarian,

I took this photo of downtown Minneapolis, MN looking through a frosty window in January, 2013. Winter is a fact of life in the Midwest. Might as well embrace it.