Never compliment on winter weather before the end of winter

... should be the title of this post. As the start of the winter (mentioned in previous post) gave us nice snow blanket as what would be perfect uverture to nice cold white winter (with white Christmas, New Years, etc.) it just wasn't meant to be. Up to now, and especially in past week we are being served with miserable mixture of drizzle, rain and even more rain. While higher regions of Alpine Europe received more than a meter of snow, we got localized flooding.

"Winter" panorama with swollen Kolpa

Can it get better? Hopefully. Although it seems good old long snowy winters are thing of the past, we still can hope for at least few snow flakes. Looking out at yet another rainy day- even from a room with a Christmas tree just doesn't compare to good old snowy day.