Tuesday saw the first snow of the winter, and first really cold tempratures. The snow has melted, but the cold has stuck around. I wonder if this will be a mild winter or not? The nice thing about the snow was that it cleared the air and has opened up the view of Mt. Ararat which is now covered in fresh snow. The ArmeniaFund telethon raised 11 million dollars this year. That should go a long way towards building Karabakh's "backbone" highway. With all the rhetoric coming out of Baku, and a recent tendency for Azerbaijan to deny ethnic Armenians from the west entry visas, peace seems a long way off.