Farewell to Winter

Since spring has officially sprung as of last week, I thought I would post a post about winter. Some people hate winter. My opinion is, you only hate winter if you don't take time to enjoy it. Driving in winter weather is its own category, separate from winter itself. Over a year ago, I decided I love winter. I took walks in the evening when snow covered everything, flakes fell softly to the ground, and the cold felt invigorating. One day I decided to build a snowman after it had just snowed. It turned into a snowbride, because I couldn't get the snow to pack into round mounds. This past winter, all of my family was home when Minersville got a great snowstorm. We went tubing up to the flood control which we hadn't done for a looong time. As you can see, I'm not actually wearing clothing meant for wet, snowy conditions, so when I got home I had a wet derriere and wet streaks down my jeans. Unfortunately, you can't see the awesome '80s, early '90s snowboots everyone is wearing. Spring and summer wouldn't be so wonderful if we didn't have winter to break things up. When I was walking for hours under the blazing sun of Teresina, Brasil I liked to imagine jumping in a pool or, even better, enjoying a nice walk during a snowstorm. So next winter, enjoy it.