This Is Beautiful: Snow

Every kid knows that magical feeling where you wake up and there's a blanket of white all over everything outside. Despite the fact that I've lived in the northeast of the US my whole life I have never really lost that joy, that excitement, of seeing snow on the ground.

It just looks so pristine and full of possibilities out there. Snow that's been stomped all over definitely does not have the same quality that the even blanketing does. Even the air feels different, it's not so cold that it's frozen, just enough that you can feel it and it energizes you somehow. Not to mention the satisfying crunch that walking around outside makes from the boots and the snow being packed. Nothing else really makes a noise like that.

And then there's also the anticipation of playing in the snow and sledding and whatever, but just looking and being out in the snow? I could do that for days. It's gorgeous.