The days seem to get longer so imperceptibly that they don't really. There's not much to celebrate in January, even though tradition places Epiphany there. I suppose we should be thankful for that. There's probably more snow than there is going to be all the rest of the year. In some parts of the world, Buffalo, N.Y., for instance, that would not be a boon.
Snow is something Buffalo often has too much of.
Not so in California. Here snow falls where you can take it or leave it. Most folks, including me, leave it, but I do faintly remember a time when I was excited by it, went to it, plopped around in it and then, thankfully, departed from it. You couldn't do that in Buffalo. Or South Dakota.