Happy New Year!

We’ve had just about every kind of weather conceivable over the past dozen or so First Nights in Albany, but it’s been a while since we actually had snow. Tonight, we have it — the kind where it snows for hours, hard, but doesn’t amount to much. Small, dense, slippery little flakes. But for once, we were there for the fireworks, which went on despite the snow, as this terribly odd photo of fireworks through the bare trees illustrates:

Let’s have a great 2006. Let’s give peace a chance.