Winter Wonderland

I find it hard to believe that it could get any more beautiful outside than it is right now. And I am not even a winter girl.

Thanks to my favorite great uncle (a.k.a. my grandfather's sister's husband's sister's husband's sister's husband thrice removed) who penned this fabulous song 30 years before I was born, I am facing unafraid, the plans that I made, walking in a winter wonderland.

When it snows, ain't it thrilling,
Though your nose gets a chilling
We'll frolic and play, the Eskimo way,
Walking in a winter wonderland

Marshmallow World

In honor of the local preemptive school closings, the start of our first really big winter storm this season and the fact that I watched a jogger jump into a snow bank this morning to avoid becoming road kill from the town salt truck, I decided to play one of my favorite peppy winter tunes: Marshmallow World. Nothing can beat the Phil Spector "Wall of Sound" from one of the best Christmas albums ever. I just wish I could sing as sweetly as Darlene Love (as does anyone who can hear me).