This was originally posted on the Samhain Publishing blog, and I’m feeling nostalgic for snow. We visited Leavenworth, WA, this past weekend and got to see the white stuff! 🙂

As the Midwest hunkers down for our first storm, I’m reminded of all the things I love about snow.  I’m not a huge fan of the cold, but I love me the white stuff!  I hope it’s a White Christmas, too.  Here, then, in no particular order, are Noony’s Top Ten Reasons To Love Snow:

1. If it’s snowing, it can’t be a gabillion degrees below zero.  If it gets too cold, the air is too dry to hold the snow and it can’t snow.  So snow means warmer.  Woot!
2. My dog loves to frolic in the snow.  Frolicking is fun when you have four feet.
3. Snow balls.  ‘Nuff said.
4. You come inside all out of breath and damp from sweating and it’s warm, even if it’s not the warmest house on the block.
5. People like to make stuff like hot cocoa and mulled cider in this weather.  Yum!
6. I’m a knitter.  Which would suck, if I lived in Bora Bora.  But I don’t, so yay!  Sweater weather!  And hats! Scarves! Mittens! Purses! Afghans! Pillows!  You get the idea.  I’m in it to knit it.
7. When it’s snowing outside, you don’t look like such an asocial freakazoid for wanting to stay in and write.  ~grin~
8. Snow is pretty.  I especially love when it’s snowed more than a foot and nothing is moving, except the periodic plop from a tree branch of falling snow.
9. At night, the snow sparkles in the streetlights like diamonds strewn on the sidewalk.
10. Snow cushions your fall.  Ask me how I know this.

What do you love about snow?  Tell me in the comments, I’d love to know!