S - Snow

Snow: Thing

Snow is my favorite form of precipitation. I like it with all five senses: how it smells, how it coats everything, how it feels on your face and beard, how it mutes sounds, and how it tastes, whereas rain is only nice to look at and hear.

Snow is also good for throwing people into. Especially girls (and especially girls that were on debate or speech teams). You can't throw a rainball, and hail is just cruel. You can't build a shelter out of sleet.

I like to shovel. I suppose, possibly, I romanticize it, not having lived in Minnesota for full winters for the last 8 years, but I do like to shovel, and I love the feeling of cheeks warming up upon coming inside after being out in the winter conditions.

My favorite type of snow, by name at least, came from an article in a Ski magazine that I used to read when I was a skier. "Death Cookies" are chunks of icy snow that one ought to avoid skiing over.