Snow's delight

Captured by an obviously-brilliant photographer: Snow | Johannesburg Zoo

It snowed in Gauteng yesterday!
                ... and I almost forgot to record it.

Heavier snow in Johannesburg than Pretoria, but we were delighted with a few happy flakes of our own. As expected, the snow magnetically pulled us outdoors (spot the South Africans ;) and we found ourselves happily huddled outside for a wee-while, delighting in the dainty flakes that quietly settled on our clothes.

Though my heart has danced in snow before (sledging in Devon, skiing in Germany and braving a braai in the gardens of Lee Abbey, London) it somehow seems a little more magical experiencing snow in South Africa. Perhaps the uniqueness of it makes the wonder ever-so-much more beautiful – a welcome visitor to a foreign land.

I was just under six years old when I last experienced snow in Gauteng. I remember dad and mom excitedly gathering their trio and rushing off to Jo’burg with the Dorans (records have it as 10 September 1981). There’s been snow since (apparently June 2007) but I missed that one, for some reason.

Facts aside though, yesterday’s splash of snow certainly managed to delight the heart. And surely that alone, makes it worth recording.