Leaving snow behind This page is a part of my Moscow Life project, collection of illustrated stories from Moscow available online since 1995. By the end of winter, the weather all of a sudden decided to remind us how beautiful the season was supposed to be in Russia. Frequent heavy snowfalls were keeping Moscow decorated with dazzling white furs becoming heartbreakingly blue in the evenings. The street lamps were wearing tidy hats, and even hissing of tires on fresh snow was somehow soothing.
Snow always changes the mood.
When everything around looks like a Christmas postcard, you feel like visiting a fairy-land even if it's been a long time since you stopped reading fairy tales. Approaching spring was bringing more colors and contrasts to our lives. Bright sun combined with cold air blasts from the North was growing huge icicles out of melting snow on the roofs. Skies were getting really blue rather than winter pale, and the days, noticeably longer. We were looking forward for the equinox.