Two sights from my apartment:

1) I wake up and roll open my Venetian blind and look at the wall like 3 feet away, and I see a single snowflake drift across it, and that's how I find out it's snowing.

2) I sit in the deep ledge of my front window, talking on my phone for better reception, and I see a small brown mouse scampering on the curb outside, and then down off of it, and then run across the street and down the steps of a house opposite.