Today, Beijing has Snowfall

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I woke up at seven and habitually wore on my earphone to listen to the radio while still lay on my back in the bed. When I turned my head to look at the window I found the light stroke into the room through the curtain was much brighter than it used to be. I got up and rushed to the window to open the curtain. To my great surprise, there was a white world outside. Everything except the tree trunks and vertical walls was covered with pure snow. That made me excited very much.

I am a southerner. I did saw snow several times in the south, but the snowfalls I saw were very small. And the southern snowy scenery is different from the northern one. Even in the winter the trees in my hometown are still green. A little snow can hardly cover anything. Those vigorous wild grasses were still standing there proudly. People could see some sorts of wild flowers blossoming around the corner or along the banks of rivers. The nature was still quite colorful and the world was still quite bustle. You could not strongly feel the peace of winter.
But here in Beijing, when winter comes almost every tree becomes bare, grasses on the opening wither. The birds have migrated to the south. The small animals and insects have hidden themselves deep into the cave. Every early morning on the big yard there are few people have been seen except several morning exercisers. It seems everything falls to a long sleep. Today’s snowfall adds quiet to the nature. Snow covers every corner. It seems that the ground is covered with a huge white carpet. Trees with darkly grey color and bare branches seemed to be inserted there by someone. At this moment about seven o’clock in the Sunday morning most people still haven’t got up. Along the road outside the door there is a line of footprints extending to the remote end. The window frame of my room is just the frame of that snowy scenery picture. What a beautiful picture! No hesitation, I take several pictures through my window.

The natural world is hibernating. But we mankind couldn’t stop working. On the road outside the door an old man is pushing a bike hardly struggling on the snowfield, which remind me to hurry up to my laboratory. Wow, today is my day!