Let's Talk About the Weather!

We've been having  very dense fog in Astana off and on for the past few days.  I wish I'd taken my camera when we were out and about on Sunday but, well, I didn't.  Here is a picture taken from our apartment window:

Compare it to this picture, taken from our apartment on a clear day:

Oh, yeah, and we had what I consider to be an unreasonable amount of snow last week.  I went to a Halloween party festooned with paper snowflakes, in an attempt to have costumes imitating life.  Fortunately, a good amount of it melted this week, but I realize that at a certain point, the snow will be here to stay for several months.  Shudder….