Over New Years' Eve, we got about 10 inches of snow. And on New Years' Day, we got another couple of inches. It's very beautiful. Here's a picture, looking up the hill I live on:

The snow is very thick and sticky, and because the temperature has stayed below freezing, it's still stuck to all the trees and bushes, making everything very pretty to look at. Here's a picture looking down the hill I live on:

Oooooh! Aaaaah! Pretty! (Although, I never quite know if snow pictures look good. Is it my camera? Is it the white background on the page?)

As the days go on, and the temperature stays cold, and the snow keeps sticking like this to the trees, so pretty and white, like sugar dusted on everything, I keep looking out the window and being a little surprised. Snow! Still! Isn't that pretty!

Because to be honest, we don't usually get this much snow around Ann Arbor. Western Michigan — yes. Northern Michigan — yes. But southeastern Michigan? Not so much. Ten inches in one go is unusual, and frankly, downright unfair. Especially since we already got ten inches of snow in the middle of December. Dry, dusty snow that time. Just for a change. Just so you don't immediately add it all up and realize that we've gotten over TWENTY inches of snow in the past MONTH. Let me add that up again. Yes. Twenty. 20. Twenty.

I really don't like snow. And can I say, if we usually got this much snow, I would not still live here. And can I also say, it's taken me more than twenty years to finally decide that maybe Michigan isn't such a bad place to live, after all. But now, after twenty inches of snow in LESS THAN ONE MONTH, I'm beginning to rethink that. If only it weren't raining frozen lizards in Florida (or this one).

There's good news, though. Although Harley is stuck inside with this cold weather (did I mention it's below freezing?), he's discovered a new food, that he really, really likes! Look:

Snow!

So refreshing! So tasty! So nutritious!