Beautiful Snow-Covered Georgetown

Usually I am in Paris during the Holiday season between Christmas and New Years. However, this year I was talked into not leaving for Paris until after Christmas and then extending my stay thru the middle of January. At the time, it seemed like a wise-decision. However as I sit here on Christmas Eve writing this, I regret that decision. All my friends and colleagues have fled the city for family, friends, the sun or snow and I now find my Georgetown neighborhood very, very quiet.

So with time on my hands and no plans for a social evening celebration, I began to edit some of my digital photos. I ran across this one of Georgetown taken from my apartment several years ago in the very early morning hours following a surprise snow storm.

Tonight, Georgetown has taken on the quiet stillness associated with that early morning storm and it appears that if one were to venture out tonight their footsteps would only be heard by them ... tonight's stillness is different but similar to those who ventured out during the snowstorm several years ago ... their footsteps were not heard but silenced by the freshly fallen snow. The only visage of their movement outdoors was their footprints.