This is Becoming a Thing

For the last two years, I’ve taken the ornaments and lights off the Christmas tree and then set it on the back deck just in advance of a snowstorm.  

The piney boughs fill with snow and look quite lovely.  There is just something magical about snow on evergreens.

Even when I have to shovel and otherwise deal with it (and this time, the extreme cold), I find snow beautiful and charming.