Deja Vu All Over Again

The most strange and beautiful phenomenon occurred on my drive to work this morning, just as I entered the city. Sudden gusts of wind blew through the streets scattering what appeared to be a wondrous flurry of cherry blossom "snow". Pedestrians ducked down into their jackets instinctively to weather the storm of petals swirling about.

Ha, I thought to myself. The only time it ever really snowed this late in the season in Maryland was at Mitch and Majel's wedding -- oh my gosh, exactly 9 years ago today! They were dressed in traditional Filipino (i.e. short-sleeve tropical linen) attire for their Catholic wedding when the snow storm descended. They might have expected rain in April, but not snow. I still remember the procession of cars slipping and sliding on the road from the church to the reception, what a surprise for their relatives from the Philippines...
But, this isn't really snow.

Then I looked more closely at my windshield and realized that the "petals" were melting on contact. I was, in fact, driving through a snow flurry in April. The surreal, magical storm lasted all of five minutes before the sun came out again. Too bad it didn't happen on April fools day :)