Amanda Hocking

With winter well underway, I was hoping to have some beautiful pictures of the Minnesota weather to share with you. It is the winters here in Minnesota that helped inspire the Kanin Chronicles, along with a trip I took to Canada and Alaska last year. I love winter, and I love the cold. (Or at least I do the first month or so of winter).

Unfortunately, Minnesota is not cooperating this year, and the recent weather has left us with green grass and no snow. Some days it feels more like spring than winter out there. Although, I’m sure that will change any second.

So, instead of sharing my own personal pics of winter, I decided I’d post some of my inspiration images from Pinterest. Winter can be cold and awful, but it’s also so beautiful, and there is something so magical about world blanketed with pure white snow and icicles.

Here are a few of my favorite images: