Missing the Snow

OK, so this is what it looked like here yesterday:

and what it pretty much looks like here all winter long:

Dark, wet, foggy, a bit on the mossy side.  The only thing missing from these pictures is the sideways, blowing rain. 
But LAST week we had this:

Happy kids!

Having fun!

But, really, you just can't do this:

or this

if it's raining. 

(Can we have more please?)