It's December 15, 2025 and Christmas season is in full swing. In the Southland that means clear, sunny skies with temperatures dipping all the way down into the sixties during the day. (It's even colder at night!) Growing up in the Great Pactific Northwest I grew accustomed to wintry white. Not where I lived, in the western GPNW, but on the other side of the mountains. Where my grandparents lived. Snow so thick that sometimes, just sometimes, you couldn't see your hand in fro