It's Winter Time for Spring!

A co-worker and I were walking home from work and turned onto a street that I had seen blocked off with a squad car and police officers several times during the course of the day. As we walked down the street, and I related my curiousity over the blocking, we realized we were walking through snow. Not a lot, just along the edges of the sidewalk. Still it's been warm in Chicago the past week, so any snow that might still be lingering in the shade would certainly be gone by now. We soon discovered that the snow was not snow but actually suds, like the lather of a bikini car wash. Fumigating? Street washing? We listed through the possibilites unable to accept any of them... soon noticing white plastic sheeting bolted over any grass along the street. And as we returned to our surprise at finding "snow" we suddenly came across real snow, and more extensive sheathing of the ground around us.

We were baffled.

Suddenly, it all clicked in my mind. El tracks, brown stones, low traffic side street, manned road block, real snow on one side, fake snow on the other... It must have been a movie shoot.

Sure enough, The Weather Man had been filming scenes that day.