200 word sentence

                After months of waiting, first through the fall, the red, yellow and orange leaves covering the ground, through the winter with the powdery wet white flakes falling from the sky and engulfing the ground, piling up, amounting to many feet of it, it finally arrives; the spring time is the time when the snow starts to melt, the temperature gets warmer, but most importantly spring sports begin, one of these being lacrosse; the beginning of the season starts with snow still covering the fields, making it impossible to utilize the grass, but instead leaving all of the spring athletes to remain inside to practice; although using the gym is better than nothing, it is not even close to being as desirable to playing out of the turf or grass fields that come with the snow melting, but it does have benefits like the fact that conditioning will be substantially easier, and that we will not have to deal with the harsh wind, or the pouring rain that drenches everyone and leaves soaking wet clothing; as soon as the snow begins to melt, with the snow still covering the ground we can move outside to the hard pavement that makes up the parking lot, but it does not bring the same joy as the fields.