The temperature has finally dropped out here and winter is making itself known - a bit of snow still on the ground and the occasional slick step. Yep, definitely winter. Winter is actually my favorite time of year. I love watching snow fall and seeing the art it creates from trees and everything else it touches. The air always takes on this magical quality during a snow storm - a hushed, entrancing quality that, if you can stop long enough, reminds you that there is true beauty in the austere season that is winter.
Last year between Christmas and New Year's, we went up to Yellowstone. It was an amazing trip. Yellowstone is really beautiful during winter. It's also a complete nightmare to get into. I may try and put up a couple photos from the trip and talk about it some over the next few weeks.
Now switching topics completely, I must take a moment to praise Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. What a great game. It offers some amazing visuals centered around the "paper" theme - from puzzles where you turn yourself sideways to enter a narrow crack or folding yourself into a paper plane, to a world design that feels like a giant pop-up book. It just fun to look at. And the battle system offers some nice strategy options while remaining terribly easy to understand. Plus it's quite funny. Definitely one of the Gamecube's must have titles.
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