You're all crazy!

[ellenmillion]

I love winter! I love it!

I love that it's 42 below and your eyelashes freeze.

I love that the snow is up over your calves.

I love the ice fog that makes everything surreal.

I love the way cars get square tires and frozen shocks and sort of grind around like stone-age carts until the grease heats up.

I love the crunchy crystals that cling to everything with the slightest hint of heat.

I love the way airplanes sound like they're landing on you because of the distortion of sound!

I love wearing fur and big scarves and puffy coats, and the way everyone is anonymous when they're outside.

I love the way my glasses fog up when I come inside.

I love having frost in my hair!

I love how beautiful the mountains look, and the way the sunsets color the skies and how the snow sticks to bent-over trees and makes interesting shapes as it melts and freezes.

I love running outside in stocking feet and knowing my feet won't get wet because it's too cold to melt the snow underneath me. (Unless my socks have holes in them, which is a very unpleasant surprise)

I love the way cold air feels in your lungs.

I love the way your nose hairs freeze and get stiff when you breath in when it's very cold.

I love winter. I'm so happy that we're finally having a real one.

Comments

[watergazer.livejournal.com]

And I love when my snot freezes....

Winter: That most beautiful, terrible season

[grizz.livejournal.com]

I hate the way the wind's been dropping the temperature to -50c, so that I literally ache after a minute outside. And the way I can't breathe, because each laboured breath sends slivers of icy pain through my lungs. And I hate that, even through my leather thinsulate gloves, my fingers go numb inside of 5 minutes unless I stuff them into my pockets anyway. I hate the way winter here is so bereft of sunlight.. everything is perpetually grey, and the occasional glimpse of sunlight is reacted to like cavemen seeing fire: gasps, astonished pointing, and screaming as we run from the spectre before us!

However, I love how calm and peaceful everything seems when it's covered in snow. I love the feeling of sitting inside, curled up in a blanket and reading, as I hear the wind howling outside and see the snow falling so thick I can't see more than 15 feet past my window. I love how singularly beautiful a field of untouched snow is. I hate the feeling of leaving my warm house to go outdoors, but love the feeling of coming in from the cold. Especially to a warm cup of hot chocolate. Ahh, winter.. a Canadian winter, at least.. such a conflict of feelings it brings up in oneself ;)

[cerberus.livejournal.com]

Ooh, ooh, Ellen, I forgot to say, I wanna order Syl's Wish3 issues!

[pers1stence.livejournal.com]

While I don't miss the miles and miles of darkness, I do miss a lot of the things you mention above. I miss the gorgeous, pure winter morning colors, when the pastels are so clear and so brilliant, it takes your breath away. I love the midnight walks underneath a moon so bright you can read by it. And watching the Aurora dance overhead, with sounds just on the edge of hearing....And the slant of light at sunrise and sunset.

[octoberdreaming.livejournal.com]

Someday, I'm coming to Alaska. ^^