A couple of shorts

1.
Her foot steps crunched as she walked along the frozen snow.  The shushing of her fur robes muffled them. But she felt unaware of the only sounds as taken as she was by the tiny crystals floating through the air glinting and gleaming around her. Some giving the briefest hint of brilliant color as the sun light hit them. She held her hands and arms out to let them land on her, but they would float away or disappear as they got near to her.

2.
Once she had shut off the TV she realized that the sounds of metal dragging on concrete was not from the broadcasted city scene but out side her own suburban door. At 10 in the morning this was an unexpected sound. It stopped as she stood. The next sound to pierce the quite of her suburban home was the ringing tinkle of the glasses in her cabinet as they rattled against each other. She felt the rumble below her feet and the floor bucked and she fell as she was hit by a wall of sound.