Snow

I never realized how much snow is a part of me. I love the fresh crispness of the air. The sound of crunching as you walk through it. the way it flys at and then over your windshield when you're driving, the feeling of laying down in it, how it's icy when packed, but so stisfying to make footprints in fresh clean snow.

I know there are downsides to winter, the salt from the roads collecting on your car, the gray slushiness after many cars have driven on the road, the icyness, the bitter cold that makes you shake all the way through,

but all in all, I am glad to be able to experience snow again. It feels like this is what I have been missing the past two years. I didn't miss it all that much the first year, but the heat just got to me and I think that is one of the major factors in me coming home is just that the heat felt un bearable most of the times.

Although I am cold most of the time and have a hard time getting warm unless rediculously bundled up, I don't mind it. not really :-)