mmmm snow

Sometimes when life gets hectic I like taking a visual vacation for a few minutes to decompress. Sometimes it will be a tropical location, sometimes it will be somewhere exotic. Maybe it's this time of year but i've been missing the cold weather and snow. There's something magical about snow. I love how peaceful it is after a good snowfall. Everything is covered in blankets of white. It's just beautiful. The last time I saw snow was almost two years ago in Big Bear. I remember I tried making some sort of snow animal and I failed miserably at it. I used to love to look out my bedroom window into our back yard and see little animal foot prints in the snow. Usually they were from the deer that came up from the field or birds. I was always the child that would try to be graceful while stepping in the snow. I didn't want to disturb it too much. Then there was my brother who would run out and jump into it with a nerf gun and the pretty snow was no more. I came across these photos that helped with my "visual vacation" tonight. It's also helping me get excited for our upcoming trip back east. I'm off to indulge in a hot shower and snuggle up and watch Home Alone. What do you do to decompress?    

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