Embracing this Loooong Winter

I don't know about you but I have had enough of this snowy, icy cold weather. This winter has felt like one of the longest winters that I can remember. As a child I remember stumbling into my house after sledding all bundled up with beads of sweat below my layers of clothes, yearning for that first sip of hot cocoa. These days I arrive home iceskating up the driveway in my boots carrying all my gear, anxiously awaiting that first sip of hot tea.

I can't help to recall a book that I read years ago, Laura Ingalls Wilder's The Long Winter. The book chronicled the autumn of 1880 through spring of 1881. It was such a snowy season that it was documented as "The Snow Winter" in history books. Apparently, blizzards lasted three days and occurred every couple of days.....OUCH! So, in hindsight if we get one big storm a week and the groundhog has told us that we only have six weeks remaining of this frigid frosty weather we are in pretty good shape. I am going to keep my head up...literally. Today the sun is shining the sky is clear and if I don't step outside to feel the frigid temperatures or look at the blanket of snow on the ground, I can pretend that June is upon us.

A post always has to include photos so I included some that I took a few weeks back when I wandered out on a snowy morning to this covered bridge nestled next to a frozen pond.