Snow in Kabul

It has mostly melted on the compound, but it actually snowed yesterday, big wet flakes that hit the paved ground and melted or hit the grass and lingered for a few hours.  There's a little bit left; now the temperature is dropping below 20 F, -8 to -10 C, but there don't seem to be enough clouds to snow more.  But it was pretty while it was falling.  The lower mountains around Kabul finally have snow on them, and it helped to clean up the air a bit.  The compound cats kept trying to sneak into the apartment buildings - one black one made it into our building, and curled up underneath the stairs.  We'll see if it snows more tomorrow.  I took no pictures in Kandahar on Wednesday, but then, again, I've been there before, and I'm not sure what there was to photograph.  The mountains on the way down had a bit more snow than they've had previously.