The smell and sight of snow

I know it was had been forecast, it still came off as a pleasant surprise: it snowed this morning. A light, crisp, dry snow that did not settle. But it was lovely to watch. I opened the window to smell it. I am ridiculously sentimental like this, but it does not snow very often and very much around this time of year, when February is getting near its end. A modicum of winter when it is still time for the season.