Fresh Blanket of Snow

We received a fresh blanket of snow last night (about 5 inches).

"The color of Spring is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination."
-Terri Guillemets

How do you imagination winter.......

• Clear deep blue sky and crisp clean air
• Wind in my face as I ski down a black diamond run at Whitefish Mountain Resort
• Fluffy white blankets of snow everywhere
• Curled up by the fire with a book and a steaming mug of Montana Coffee Traders coffee
• Long nights of darkness
• Quilting a quilt as a gift for my friend about to have a baby
• Cold, white, blustery, slippery, wet, windy, snowy, beautiful, frigid, sparkly, polished, gray
• X-country skiing in to and out of Jewel Basin
• Crystaline snowflakes falling, and falling, and falling
• Theraputic ice-fishing perched on my favorite white bucket set between two ice-fishing holes drilled through 14 inches of ice
• Sipping my favorite beer at Flathead Lake Brewery
• Snow-shoeing my favorite trail along the river near Lake McDonald Lodge in Glacier National Park
• Family time
• Working on the finishing touches of a scrapbooking project for my Granddaughter
• Snow ghosts at the Summit of  Blacktail Ski Mountain
• The exhilaration of Snowmobiling at Crane Mountain, Hungry Horse Dam, or the Skyline Trail
• Whooshing down the slopes is pretty darn fun, on my snowboard of course
• Snowed in at my favorite lodge
• Participating in the Polar Bear Plunge on New Year's Day at Woods Bay