Snow

Snow is wonderful. I love the fluffy, powdery stuff. It make me happy to look out on a world blanketed in a pure unbroken plain of soft, white snow. It gives everything a pristine look, and the world just looks peaceful. Snow is wonderful.

However, it presents many problems to the functioning of a society that relies on roads and cars and other modes of transportation that rely on traction on a rough road to remain stable. Snow and ice together combine to make that rough surface unrough and hence take away traction causing cars to slide and hit each other, cars to run off the road, and many other catastrophes. It sucks.

But winter is one of my more favorite times of the year. It is very cold, this I know. But there's something about it that makes me like it so much. Autumn is a time of death to me, the trees start going into their dormant state to conserve energy, and everything just starts to look dead. By the time autumn is over, I'm just ready to forget all my morbid thoughts and what comes next? Winter. It can be depressing sometimes, the lack of sun, the cold, the snow, the ice, the dangers. But with winter comes Christmas, the New Year, Groundhog's Day, President's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Valentine's Day, and the hope and knowledge that spring is coming soon. Life will return to our barren world. The ice caps and glaciers will give up all the land that they took over during the long winter. The world becomes new again. Winter is the greatest season of the year.

And so we go.