First Fridays figured large in my Sarasota life, so we revisited this downtown tradition in Lancaster. Sadly for me, all of the shops and galleries I would visit again were open on our last visit so it was a little bit of much ado about nothing. So, we had a burrito and headed home.

Saturday we had a mission: collect our backsplash tiles. This was meant to be a day in Flatiron and Chelsea, walking/photographing the High Line and doing some NYC Christmas shopping. Instead the weather was mortifying. We double-parked outside the tile shop, loaded up, and headed home. It was that bad. Somewhere in Jersey the driving rain turned to driving snow and we decided to give Bethlehem a shot; it was quiet and snow-covered. We didn't find much other than a crowd at Moravian and crickets on the south side, so went back to LMT and made a Mexican rice and pork thing and watched a movie.

This morning is sun-on-new-snow brilliant, sure to be a good day.