All My Best Friends are Flakes.

In honor of the snow to come today, here's what those beautiful (sometimes, depending on whether you have to drive in them) flakes look like up really close:

I meant to have a Christmas cocktail recipe up today, but the month of December seems to be zooming forward without me.  Slow down, Christmas season!  And also, work!  You're killing me!  Apologies for being flakey.  And for that bad joke!

xo. di.

*images by Photographer Alexey Kljatov; see the rest here