WINTER WONDERLAND

These are the trees out behind our house. I walked around tonight and took some pictures of some of the beauty of all of it, since it may be years before we see this kind of snow again. Talk about great timing...the week of Christmas!

Buddy LOVES the snow. He is always so excited to go out in it, and he runs around burrowing his nose in it, and then just sprawls out and relaxes. It's so funny.


The one thing I missed when I moved here to Washington was the snow! I grew up in snow. Winter was always such a fun time growing up, playing in the snow until you couldn't feel your toes anymore, then warming up inside with some hot chocolate! MMM! Surprise! This week we just keep getting more and more snow! The kids got out of school on Wednesday, 3 days early for Christmas break! Saturday night it snowed and snowed. All day today it has been snowing. We have 7 inches right now. I don't think I've seen snow like this since I lived in Nebraska in 1995.

I love how the pure white snow makes you see colors differently, almost more vividly. The blue sky looks more blue, the evergreens look more green, and even the moonlit night looks brighter. I especially love how it looks and feels at night. It never really gets dark when there is so much white around. As I get older, I marvel more at all of the Wonders around us. We have never known a better artist than God, and he created it all for us! The beautiful colors of the sun peeking up above the horizon, and the way the clouds show off the colors of the sunset. The way the moonlight reflects off of the snow and makes it look like millions of little diamonds. Simply amazing!