Mama Kat Thursday: Favorite Winter Memory!

The Mama Kat blog writing prompt I'm doing today is,
 "Describe Your Favorite Winter Memory."

I grew up Indiana, out in the country with my two sisters on 22 acres of heavily forested land that included a valley with a creek at the bottom.
The house we lived in occupied 5 acres in one corner  and the rest was our play land that we enjoyed running about in like wild wood elves.

Our woods were all deciduous trees: Beech, Tulip, Cottonwood, Ash, Sassafras,  Ironwood, Wild Cherry, Hickory, Red & Silver Maples and a half dozen different kinds of Oaks. The only native evergreens were Cedar trees and those seemed mostly located at the bottom of the valley where the creek was.

A wide, leaf covered trail from the back yard, through the trees, the creek in the valley. 

It was in winter, after a heavy snow that this trail took on it's most magical winter wonderland appearance! The weight of the snow on the tree branches curved them all downwards, turning our familiar trail into a frosted white tunnel that was a thing of beauty to behold.
That's my fondest winter memory.

The photo is from Pixabay and while it captures a little of the feel, our trail was lined with much younger trees that bowed so far over, their branches nearly touched ground, so it was far more tunnel-like.

My sisters and I also got a great deal of fun of running into that magical tunnel and bumping trees so clods of snow would fall on e each other.

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