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Description Essay: Winter
Description Essay: Winter

The cold, freezing, frostbite wind that nips at your nose and fingertips carrying little snowflakes, makes all your troubles go away. Fingers and toes are numb, but it’s a good feeling. It’s one of the wonderful things about the winter season. Bundled up like a little kid getting ready for bed brings back those thoughts of when your mother and father would tuck you in and say goodnight. The winter season has many perks.
The snow is like a white ash that falls covering the land and everything in its path. It’s like magic falling from the sky. The tiny star-shaped pieces of the clouds are mesmerizing. I love to look out of the window at the white blanket covering the land. Everything disappears, hiding under piles and piles of white frozen water. The sun sparkles, picking out glittery diamonds in frosty surroundings.
Winter is an amazing time of the year. There’s snow falling, children laughing, playing and making snow angels. Building a snowman while singing Christmas carols, it’s all really magical. It’s calm, relaxing, and happy. Spending it with your family makes everything that much better. Everyone is outside enjoying the weather or inside cuddled up in a warm blanket with a cup of hot coco watching the snow as it falls like rain on a gloomy day. Although, who would want to stay in when there’s an abundance of white cotton outside just screaming to be tampered with?
Along with winter comes Christmas, the best holiday of all. At my house my family gets together laughing and opening gifts. I come from a very large, loud, entertaining group of people that I love with all of my heart. The laughter that fills the house brings joy and peace. My cousins and I go outside and laugh and play in the snow. Snug inside many layers of clothes is like being taken back to my childhood. The urge to make a snowball is overpowering and I can’t help but to pick one up and start the fight. I throw myself to the ground and start making

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