The approaching wintry days and nights means cuddling up in your warmest, cozy fleece, as unexpected snow wraps the earth in a thick, opaque, and silent blanket of white.

Ever go outside after foot upon foot of snow has obliterated everything familiar from sight? All you see is white. Everywhere white and a kind of strange glowing haze in the frosty, still air. When the sun peers through the haze, it casts an eerie kind of glow. The crystalline particles of snow glisten, almost blinding you with their brilliance. Sound seems to have evaporated away, and the earth seems to stand frozen and still in its white-coated glory. The silence is palpable. You get the feeling you’ve just entered a different kind of alien world, where time has stopped. When a slice of sun razors through, everything bec…