I hope you don't mind, I'm having fun with the snow pictures!

 

This is the dogwood tree at the end of Pete and Nancy's driveway.  I noticed last week that it had already dropped all its leaves, AND set flower buds for spring.

 

Look how pretty it was in the snow.  

 

I used to think that winter wouldn't be pretty: no flowers, no leaves, no color.  How WRONG I was.  There is beauty everywhere!!  Flowers (in the bud stage) leaves waiting to pop out in the spring, and colors that are different than other times of the year.  Just look around.  

 

HAPPY WINTER!!