Smithsonian Institution Building in the snow, Washington, D.C., 1967, photographer unknown, via Smithsonian Institution Commons on flickr.
Two to six inches of snow (and some sleet) are forecast for Washington today.
O! wonderful for weight and whiteness!
Ideolog whose absolutes
Are always proven right
By white and then
More white and white again. . .— Tom Disch, from “Ode to a Blizzard“
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