The temperature has been nose diving all afternoon yesterday and the
wind has been howling through the trees in the backyard. Enveloped in
the dark everything sounds much more ominous than it really is. The
wind was barreling like a freight train and rain hitting our windows
like little arrows. It sure sounded like a storm outside. So when we
woke up this morning and saw NO snow in the backyard we decided to trek
up the mountains to enjoy some of the fluffy white stuff that fell in
the higher elevations.
There
is a beauty all it's own to appreciate about the winter landscape in
the North Carolina Mountains. It is hard to describe and can only be
truly appreciated in person. From the glistening snowy fields, to the
diamond droplets hanging from every tree branch to the tree trunks
painted in white; it takes my breath away every time. Mysterious; mystical; a
landscape from a fairy tale.
And it affords us a whole new set of fun activities to enjoy and the girls had it all planned out. First we will go sledding;
then get some hot cocoa and then build a snow man!
The
snow was not sticking much, so our snowman looked more like a squirrel
than anything else! But we had a lot of fun and that is all that
matters!
