Winter Lovers or How to Try to Hate Winter Less...

So we have spoken at great lengths about the resilience and the insanity of life in the cold. If you are a native of the cold climate, I imagine it is no big deal to spend 6 out of 12 months in below freezing temperatures. I suppose you embrace the inevitable. Here, we have witnessed insane winter behavior. Winter biking: aka ski-mask wearing, head lamp sporting, nails-in-your-tires driving crazy folks. Regardless of the mass amounts of blowing snow, ice and sleet, these people are out in the streets with no fear. The ride so fast, this quick snap photographer was unable to get a shot of the action for the blog.
Another interesting phenomenon of the winter folks is the snow jogger, x-country skier, ice fisher and snowshoer. These people mean business. There is no nap time for winter vacation. The Winter Lover will go on with their day to day activity as if nothing was wrong. As though the temperature outside was actually fit for human beings with functioning nerve endings. (see blog post on nude walker for more on that.)



This weekend, Lake Harriet held the annual Winter Kite Festival. Lake. Kit flying. Crazy, no?
It was sweet and neighborhoody and fun for all ages. There was an MC who played some big band tunes and called out on the microphone about a found lone glove. There were many dogs and many kites.
I imagine that if we lost our bitterness about winter and our malaise about the cold, maybe we could actually make it through another 2 months of this shit. Maybe not.