It's icing!

I wish I could say it was snowing, but alas, it's not. However, there is a bit of ice on our front steps, and there was some sort of freezing precip tonight (sleet, maybe?).

I think Christmas lights look better under snow, especially lights on bushes. The glow of lights shining thru a layer of perfectly clean white snow is so much better than lights covering a greenish-brown bush. That's not likely to happen anytime soon here in Austin (if we get any "snow" in the average year it's really more like a few ice crystals that stick to a rooftop or tree, not anything measurable), so I'm left celebrating the fact that our front steps are just a tiny bit slippery.

Matt put on his slippers and made me a big mug of hot chocolate. So, I think that winter, at least in the Austin style, has officially arrived.