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What I’m about to write, it’s undoubtedly cheesy. The line, it went through my head and I rolled my eyes, thinking “Really? That’s what you’re going to write?” But I can’t help it, see, because it’s also true. So here it is:
Every snowfall is its own kind of magic.
(I told you.)
But stay with me for a minute. See, I live in a part of the world where a snowy winter is a foregone conclusion. I know that there will be snowy days, storms, blizzards. I will go outside and get pelted in the face with icy slush at least once. Winter is a season of driveway shoveling, hazardous driving conditions, slippery sidewalks. It’s full of days when I have to clean inches of snow off of my car, go to the grocery store, and then clean off my car again before driving home. Cold is a constant, and I have to put on layers of clothes to go outside on days when the temperature is so harsh I’d rather not go outside at all. Considering all of that, it’s fairly easy to understand why winter is not my favorite time of year, why I grumble about it, why I can usually be found muttering rude things under my breath whenever I encounter a weather report.
And yet the fact remains that it is beautiful, so incredibly beautiful I often can’t believe what I’m seeing. And every snowfall is indeed its own kind of magic, filling the air with a cold, clean scent and the insistent whisper of plummeting flakes. Day or night, an all-day snowfall or a short-lived burst of precipitation, the snow is amazingly, ridiculously, gloriously beautiful as it falls fresh and makes the world (even for a few brief moments) look like something out of an untouchably perfect fairy tale.
The woman in this photo? She knows that magic too. I imagine that’s why she’s smiling as she watches it fall.
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