First Snow is a quiet, intimate web archive — an attempt to hold onto a fleeting winter shared with a friend I’ve known for seven years.

Adulthood has scattered us into separate rhythms; the closeness we once took for granted now arrives in intervals measured by years. This past Christmas was the first time we saw each other in eighteen months. The time was brief, yet strangely vivid. We walked through New York like we used to—shopping for groceries, sketching side by side, riding subways, reading manga, listening to music. Small, ordinary rituals, saturated with something tender.

This website gathers those fragments into a digital shelter.