Who Loves Winter?

[northland archer]

Winter seems to drag on for some folks here in the north, however, i find myself spending a lot of time outside with each new winter.  
Woke up this morning and decided to do a little stump shooting.  Grabbed the snow shoes since we have a good two feet plus on the ground, and dressed my 'second wife' (my German shorthair).  We have had the crazy fog the past couple days and the woods were beautiful.  Thought you might enjoy a few pics of this early Minnesota morning.  Oh ya, not alot of stump shooting since everything was under the snow, but still a great time spent out.

[John3]

I used to love winter,,, but no more.  We are expecting yet another snow storm tonight into Sunday.  

Can someone turn on spring?   LOL


Beautiful pics. Thankyou for taking us with you.

John III

[George D. Stout]

I love about thirty days of it....that's enough.

[SveinD]

There is only one thing to not love about winter,
and that is the lack of stumps..

Otherwise, winter is mindblowingly beautiful!
Crispy clean, white serenity..

[varmint101]

I used to love it too, now I like the fall and spring.  Supposed to get more snow Sunday and into Monday as well.

[Sticks2117]

ME, ME, Oh I do

[straitera]

Born & raised in Houston & still haven't got used to the skin scorching summers here. Spent a year (1981-82) in Denver & loved it. The weather that is. Coldest in 50 years they said.

[Covey]

I'm with George! Jason

[MYSTIKBOW]

BEAUTIFUL pictures Treavor!!
I love winter too. I have lived in central NY all my life except for a few years while in the service. I enjoy the change of seasons but there is nothing like getting outside in the winter to stump shoot,small game hunt or a host of other activities to keep you fit and on your toes!

[Doug in MN]

It was indeed a beautiful morning here in MN today the best of the season.

But love winter NOT HARDLY.

DD

[coaltroll]

I do NOT like winters. The older I get the harder the cold seems to be on me. It has got to the point that I am trying to talk the company I work for into a transfer to another location. The main criteria for the move would be warmer!

[acadian archer]

I love winter , right up to December 26, and it's time for it to go. at least the days are getting longer and it's ligth to around 6:30.

[tj69]

Can´t see that "white dirt" anymore.
My snowpusher is broken and the snow thrower too...  
But the children are happy, good skiing, good tobogganing.
So I am patient.

[woodsman 365]

When I was younger, I didn't mind it. Now I find myself hoping for it to be over.

[muley40]

The older I get the more I hate it, wished I had the funds to winter in Florida,Texas or Arizona,maybe I will win the Powerball tonight so I can go,

[sou-pawbowhunter]

I guess I'm bass-ackwards as usual, I find myself less tolerant of heat and humidity as I get older, but I do love winter.  We just need to talk to our friends in the logging industry about leaving taller stumps, the ones that are out there now can't be found under all this "global warming".  

[Jerry Wald]

Well I had better get used to it (was what I was told when I moved north). Love it...hmmmmm. I love the summers here all two months of them.

Getting 20+ hours of daylight for four months is nice....but the winters are long and they are getting on my wifes nerves.

Don't know how much longer I can keep her here either.

I do love the remoteness and the lack of ppl...not that I don't like ppl but i don't need to see thousands of them everyday.

Would love to live in a place that we could hunt more often. We have many critters here that we can't hunt because of trappers rights.

There are many foxes - lynx Bison that i would love to get with an arrow, but they are protected...actually our red squirrels are protected because they are fur bearing and trappers can utilize them (wierd).

Jer

[Ken Babicky]

I find myself each year liking the cold less and less, but the last couple of years I've been using my snowshoes more and more and I really seem to enjoy that more than I ever have. Like this morning, I was out for a couple of hours, managed to trash an arrow on a "slightly more frozen than I thought" stump, but for once didn't lose any in the snow, so that was a plus. Also, moving around on snowshoes makes the cold seem "not so bad". All that being said, I'd still prefer the fall season over the rest of the year, but mother nature is still the boss.

[jhg]

I remember when I was pre-teen and started to bum out about the weather (winter). It somehow dawned on me after a few days of this that life (especially MY life) was going to be a long constant disappointment if I continued to choose to lament the season rather than embrace it. And  point of view, of course, has made all the difference.

And I thank my Dad for setting the example. In 50 years, I NEVER heard that man complain about the weather or the season.

Joshua

[centaur]

I really like winter now that I'm snowbirding in Arizona. 70 degrees today; it's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.