C247 Three good nights(part iia)

The current embankment was covered with a vast expanse of white snow. The former ponds and lawns were also covered with snow; only the bare trunks stood erect above the earth, stubbornly struggling against nature; the branches swayed merrily in the cold wind; the river was already beginning to freeze, and many children were playing on the ice by the river: some were skating on the snowmen