What hobby helps you beat the winter blues? Here's what you told us.

We asked readers what hobby helps them beat the winter blues. Here's what you told us, lightly edited for clarity:

"Birding gets me outside."
— John Heneghan

"I make handmade fishing lures. Satisfies being creative and dreaming of me or someone catching the big one."
— Rick Mobley

"Volunteering at the zoo."
— Kate Niedner

"Cooking, baking, playing ukulele, catching up with friends, walking my dog in different places."
— Joe Lilly

"The gym is your best defense, along with getting out walking when it's not too icy."
— Tara Goodwin

"Legos and playing Dungeons & Dragons at Uptown Taproom. One is meditative and centering. The other is to stay social and build up essential 'winter padding' with good beer."
— Beaumont Sebos

"Gunpla. I enjoy building small plastic models from the Japanese anime show Mobile Suit Gundam."
— Evan William

"Staying at home baking or meal prepping."
— Sarah Morgan

"I took up candle making this winter. I have been pouring them in blue mason jars, buttery yellow egg cups, green glass drums that are vintage juice glasses, squatty hexagonal vases, anything interesting I can get my hands on. And I scent them with grapefruit and orange natural oils. It's a fresh 'wake up to your life' scent for a new year."
— Cee Stiel

"I paint one room ahead of spring."

— Martin Urbanczyk