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When the sun is out and everything is white, it's impossible to resist the call for a walk in the snow.

It snows often in Poland. Sometimes, though, it really snows.

Students in our small village high school put on a small Christmas pageant every year.

As Christmas drew to a close, my not-yet-wife-nor-even-yet-engaged and I took a walk in the frigid winter weather. It was around -35 Celsius if memory serves -- quite cold, quite cold.

With temperatures during the winter never really rising above freezing in the mountains of southern Poland, early snowfall only serves as the foundation for later snowfall. In the end, the fields...

Merry Christmas to all -- and if you don't celebrate Christmas, enjoy this beautiful day with your family.

The Polish Christmas Eve dinner -- Wigilia, which is Polish for "vigil" -- was always the highlight of the year for me when I lived in Poland. An evening of quiet reflection, good food, and joyful...

Christmas Eve dinner is a big deal in Poland. This was the main course -- trout -- in 2002.

The rynek -- market square -- of Krakow is always a great place for a stroll in the days leading up to Christmas. The decorations are lovely, there are venders selling all sorts of holiday treats,...

This was the main shop where I purchased most of my groceries. Part of a building that also housed the local fire department, it had recently been remodeled but the owners hadn't waited for the...

Though the snow falls and temperatures reach -10 and below, work continues in rural Poland.

My homeroom students took some time Friday afternoon to work on the double-dug organic garden Hughes is in the process of creating. [gallery...