I want snow! Lots of it! We've had a pretty winter so far and the mountains all around us are white but I want SNOW!

I love to walk in it, crunching and creaking it underfoot, marveling at the diamond magic all around; I especially love to see it floating down and piling up softly to ever greater depths.

I even enjoy shoveling the stuff and keeping a high-walled path through the lawns but haven't had the chance this year. So far. "We're bound to get some pretty soon," she says wistfully. "This is Alaska.

Ebbie