The Escape

“Don’t worry, there will be an El Niño effect this winter”, they said in October. Then, even after 17 inches of snow dropped on our city in less than 12 hours last month, the meteorologists were still adamant that our winter would bring higher-than-normal temperatures and less snow.

The snow thing might still pan out, but we’re in our 4th lengthy, below-zero-dipping cold snap of the season so far. Unless some unprecedented heatwave cranks us into the 60s in February (oh please, oh please!), there’s no way this winter is going average “above normal.”

To fight my wicked case of cabin fever, it’s time to escape into some warm photographs: