Winter Wonderlands

Places like these make me just LOVE the winter. There is something heart warming, almost magical in the winter atmosphere; the snow, post holiday lights and decorations, heavy coats, cool breeze, hot chocolate, closings and delays that give you additional hours of sleep on weekdays while it is snowing outside and then some free time to play in the snow with the kids or slide down the neighborhood hill... But then there is also ice on your windshield, snow that must be plowed, digging out your car from the parking, bone freezing cold, half an hour of getting the kids dressed with all those layers to protect from the cold every time you leave the house, to name just a few, winter fun. My daughter always reminds me:"if you want to enjoy the rainbow you have to like the rain" so after coming from a place that barely gets rain, where the temperature rarely gets below 50F and 60 is considered COLD, I do appreciate some rain though not so much and not in the summer, and am learning to deal with the cold until the next summertime.

Photograph by Arik Eyal