I didn't really expect anymore that we'll get some winter in the lowlands: there wasn't any snow worth mentioning so far in Lobau, nor was there any ice except an extremely thick layer which couldn't even withstand a sparrow's weight - and nor was there any more today, not really, only that there was enough snow (just!!) to make a white appearance, if you didn't look too closely.
So no real winter but only a reflected splendour, and now that we've got mid-january already, and weather forecast doesn't really predict much more of it, I don't expect that we will get the real thing at all, in the un-winter of 2011/12 - not here in the lowlands. Thank you very much, climate change, you've finally managed to produce a winterless winter.
