keyword: grey. toronto is waaaaaay ____. ____ pale and ashy but the most beautiful ____ you can imagine. ____. i drove out to my parents house today and the route out to their place in the burbs takes us along a highway through what's known as the Don valley. the valley is ____... ____ and peppered brown with last years leaves. ____, and still, with a coat of this winter's relentless snow. the once-in-a-while willow trees provide a bit of color as their weeping branches and their tiny buds glow a yellow that seems almost neon amidst the, you got it, ____. 3 of my mum's crocuses broke their brilliant purple through the ____ ground. i wake up recently wondering if there is still snow to be witnessed. i wake up and the window over my head usually exposes a blue sky above; later in the afternoon it usually goes ____ but if it doesn't it's brilliantly sunny like today. i then look out over the ____ roads, the ____ sidewalks as they compliment the ____ish brown lawns and the nearly budding but still bald trees. snow. almost no sign of spring snow. snow, white sometimes, and sometimes ____ and snow aged to ice over the months near the sides of the roads, ice that has picked up dirt from the vehicles, absorbed the filth from the traffic, melted from salting, melted together with sand, ice that was once white, has now in places gone black. it's beguiling but you can revel in it, if you know how to look at it, touch it. it's so ____, beautiful. it's not april yet, but sometimes it snows in april. i wonder if you know that song?
