Winter

The first snow has fallen. It is upon us. The time for shoveling snow off of driveways, cars, roofs and roads. It feels like all but the kitchen sink is shoveled by the time the day is over. It’s the time for coats, boots, hats and gloves. The time to wake up earlier than you probably feel like to warm up and clear off your car. Then you have to cautiously drive down the usually half snowplowed roads (if they’re plowed at all) to go to work, school or wherever it is you’re headed to. If you manage to make it safely to your destination you just hope that the sun shines all day and that it does not snow anymore.

The first snow has fallen. The time has finally come for hats and gloves, sleds and snowboards, hot chocolate and warm fires. There should be no downtime in winter because of all the things that can be done: building snowmen, snowball fights, making snow angles, sledding, and pond hockey. Join your friends or do it alone. Snow allows so many things to be done for fun. Even if you are not the active type of person you can still sit back, relax and enjoy the peaceful scene that the snow makes: the snow smoothly and evenly spread across the yard, the snow clinging to the pine tree branches showing a new side to those all year trees, and the wonderful muffled sound (because of all the snow) of a snowplow driving down the road. It is such a wonderful time of the year.