What I recall from my teen band years was a festival featuring a guest band from Alaska. After less than a half hour in the marching competition, the delicate northern flowers were dropping like flies. Every ambulance in the county was carting those poor kids away.

I don’t shovel snow at night because there is no light out here at all unless the moon is out. We live on a mountain.

That said, the full moon on snow..GAWGEOUS!

And I am getting used to the cold. The other day I went out to attend the bird feeder in nothing but my pajamas and a pair of boots.

I do like your “Tai Chi tree”. (The two parallel branches are an arm and leg. See it?)

I love shoveling snow, especially at night, when there isn’t much traffic, there’s a soft reflective glow from the cloud cover, and everything is muffled.

Oh, and for those who might get stuck in a snow storm? Don’t eat snow if you’re thirsty. You’ll lose body heat from melting the snow in your mouth. Melt it over a fire, boiling if possible.

what a place for the Olympics.

More importantly, I spend time looking for fresh snow for my drinks that doesn’t have animal tracks in it.