Snow is Over Rated!

Well, it's that time of year again: when you can't just walk outside without a coat, when snow complicates life by making roads slippery and shoes and pants wet, and when you realize that you've just spent over 5 months of pay on presents for other people.
Something that I've realized over the past two or three winters is that snow is over rated. I mean, honestly, what's it good for? Of course, you see all these beautiful pictures of it (such as the one here, which I took by the way) where it looks pure and innocent, but do you ever stop and think, "Gosh, I wonder how many people got into wrecks that day," or "Wow! That photographer's fingers must have been ice cold." Why should you think these things? Well, it just so happens that more car accidents happen after the first snow fall than at any other time of the year. As far as the second question goes, I can testify from my own experience. It has come to my attention that most cameras dislike the use of gloves when capturing a moment, or so it would seem, seeing as every time I've finally gotten the one finger that continually blocks the lens (due to the extra length of the glove) out of the way, the camera seems to slightly shift in my hands, so that I come out with one of two results. Either A-my finger doesn't push the correct button and "accidentally" deletes another picture that I like or B-the picture comes out blurred or slanted due to my movement. So, I have found the easiest way to avoid this is to take off the gloves, and this is, for the most part, a bad thing for the photographer. It's not a bad thing as far as the actually picture is concerned, but after roaming through 17 inches of snow and holding a camera with your bare hands....well, you start to get a little cold.

Snow is Over Rated! Continued

Also, snow is over rated as far as "having fun in the snow." I, for one, don't particularly enjoy being pelted in the face with a hard ball...especially if it then makes my face not only hurt from the force, but hurt from the cold. I have never found this much fun and so proceeded to go sledding hoping to find some winter fun in this activity. However, yet again I found that snow is over rated. You see, to enjoy good sledding you must find a good hill, a good sled, and have "good" snow; none of which seem to ever coincide. On top of all that, you've got to know how to steer. I don't know about the rest of you, but pulling on a tiny piece of sting just doesn't seem like steering, and every time I try to do it I end up face down in the snow. So, once again, I have come to the conclusion that snow is over rated. Finally, there's the snowman. In order to build a snowman one must not only have patients, but be fairly strong. What I hate the most, though, is once you've built the darn thing, you step back to look at it and realize that twigs, leaves, and grass somehow got into your huge snowballs and makes the snowman look like he has hives all over his body. This all leads me to believe that snow is----that's right, over rated and simply no fun at all. I have found that the only thing I really enjoy about winter is coming in, out of the cold, and drinking hot chocolate (in which case....you don't really need snow).