Thursday, February 4, 2010

Winter in Latvia...and smiles...

As I was walking into work this morning, I couldn't help but smile...The reason? Well, Riga received a lot of snow and so the sidewalks are covered. When it is snowing, very few people are outside. Very few sidewalks have people clearing the snow while it is falling, but afterwards, there are people along the street clearing the snow. The reason for the smile? Today while I was walking in, I saw a lady in a fur coat, and a bright yellow safety vest over the fur coat, with a shovel in hand clearing the snow in front of a bus-stop. It was just such an incongruous site, that I had to smile.

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