it's beautiful to look at, and I especially appreciate it at Christmastime. Lights always look more magical when reflecting off snow. Plus snow kind of makes everything "clean". There's a house at the end of our street that's been in foreclosure for a while and was abandoned long before it went into foreclosure. In the summer, it's an eyesore, all rotting wood and fallen branches and piles of broken asphalt, etc. In the winter, covered in snow, even this house looks kind of pretty. I also appreciate the clear delineation between seasons. Snow? Winter. Blinding sun, high temperatures and dying lawns? Summer. Sunny but cooler days and trees decked out in red, yellow and orange? Fall. Gray skies, vacillating temperatures and mud as far as the eye can see? Spring.
OTOH, driving in snow is a beyotch. Especially early on each winter when we've all forgotten how to do so (I don't know about everyone else but I definitely get more blasé about winter driving as we experience more and more snowstorms each winter). Snow = salt on the roads, which = salt on your car and worse, under your car, quietly causing gas and brake lines to rust (and the gas tank in the only brand new car I ever owned, though not right away of course). And snowplows = potholes and mailboxes knocked over by the force of the plowed snow hitting it. If you're not from the north and come here in cooler weather and wonder why so many people have some sort of panel or decoration next to their mailbox, that's why. Anyways, it's possibly just the "jelly side down" effect but it seems like it's always blizzarding the day you have something fun planned. Or something not fun but necessary planned, like a doctor's appointment.
And of course then there's the COLD the snow brings. I like a warm sweater, a puffy coat and a thick scarf with matching pom-pom hat as much as the next gal but I get tired of having nearly constant cold extremities from November-April. And I get tired of long stretches without seeing any sunlight.
So...yeah, my feelings about winter and snow are complicated...<g>
ETA: I "deal" with the snow by going out in it as little as possible. And occasionally giving it the middle finger when I see it falling, and showing no signs of stopping, on a day when I have plans. I've also shoveled snow a time or twenty.
