Having a cigarette on a freezing cold day was like a punishment. Standing outside with wind and snow blowing in your face is somewhat of a deterrent.

If only all that January rain had been snow.

By Wednesday night, we're thinking about one to two feet of new snow in the Cascades -- that's a lot for a 24-hour period.

You can see snow-covered Alps on a clear day in July. We don't go over in winter. We spend May, June, September and October there.

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

We had a really warm winter, and then we get snow the first day of spring.