When November ends

I have always loved winter, everything about it. The air is so fresh, it wakes you up instantly. Light and colours seem different, distant. Your breath is forming clouds, allowing daydreams of being a dragon. The water is forming snowflakes and ice, the sunlight is creating prisms in it, so many wonders around every corner. Most life forms are existing in a fully different state (from the warm months), some are hibernating, others adapted with thick furs and reduced strolls. But in general, many sounds are dimmed, blanketed in snow. So some of the things I adore about dusk and dawn is stretching into the days as well. And sledge rides! Ice skating! Getting home after, reading or playing video games for hours, drinking hot chocolate or herbal teas with honey (...) It has been many years since last I used a sledge, because there's not enough snow anymore here (mid/southern Germany) so I gave it away even before my son and I moved here in 2017. I never ice skated in open air on act...