I love snow. I grew up in Northeastern Ohio where it snows for much of the winter and sledding was one of my favorite activities. We also got snowflakes, those tiny crystaline, hexagonal formations that unfortunately, are so rare here in the pacific Northwest. We tend to get a mix of rime (slush) and graupel (mini-snowballs), which doesn't last too long. However, this December, not only did it snow, but it stayed around for over a week! I didn't see any real snowflakes, mind you, but I did get to go sledding and snow sculpting. I built a snowbear, snowhenge, and just for the heck of it, used xmas lights to create a giant xmas eel in our front yard that made one of the local papers! One of the nights I was working, several deer ambled by; and one of them let me get pretty close for a picture.
