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 o...