Winter

I love days like this.

I love them much more than anyone with deep Southern roots should be able to - but these perfect bitter cold winter days just energize me. Days that are so cold that the light and sound seems to be effected. Tiny ice crystals just stay in the air at near zero giving everything that veil of haze and there are no birds or animals around, so everything is as silent as it can be, the only sound my own crunching of the snow. They are few and far between, days like this - between storms and in the deep freeze.

But to me they are just gifts...

Koda was happy just to be out in his own back yard again....

We are in this for a while .