Lighter Shade of Pale

Olivia and I have been bed-ridden for a few days. We worked so hard to get Chad over his virus so he could go back to work this week, thqt we both caught it. Apparently, my fool-proof anti-viral methods don't work when the virus involves a hacking cough. So we have been spending time looking out the window and watching more and more snow. We developed a hypothesis that I was delighted to find out was true. The colder it is, the smaller the actual snowflakes are and lighter the shade of gray it is outside. After all these year in the Midwest it becomes necessary to pay attention to shades of gray, apparently.