Snowy Pilgrimage

We settled down into our house in Markt Berolzheim yesterday evening after 22 hours of travel.

Today we woke up and it's snowing!!!

It just started yesterday, it's the first snow of the season -- roses and other blossoms are still on the bushes, and all the plants are all a startled green. We made our pilgrimage through the snow to the lindens, drank some of the water, and said hello to the place.

Afterwards we had a wonderful shopping expedition in the tiny market here. The friendly shopkeepers fixed us coffee and told us about all the cakes and pastries that they had prepared for St. Martin's day, celebrated next weekend here since it's an Evangelical village (other nearby villages are Catholic and celebrate it on December 6th.)

And yes, "Evangelical" here means a much different thing than it does in the States!