Perfect snow

Y-town and Suburbia are receiving today what I would consider to be Perfect Snow. It's fluffy, it drifts through the air picturesquely, and it sticks to the ground only on unpaved surfaces.

Unfortunately, I've yet to figure out how to post pictures, and I don't have a camera with me in any event. So you'll just have to take my word for it.

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...from Huron State's winter 2005 schedule of music and dance events:

Barry Manilow Competition

Many of [the school's] finest undergraduate music majors compete for scholarship honors as they perform in thie annual prestigious competition recital.

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