“A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky—unbidden—and seems like a thing of wonder.”</strong> ~Susan Orlean
I didn’t get my post done last night and so I took you for a walk with me on the new fallen snow this morning. Not much snow. Maybe 2 inches, but however much it was, it coated all the tree limbs in beauty and covered up the mud in the pasture fields.
“There’s just something beautiful about walking in snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special.” ~Carol Rifka Brunt
The dogs and I did make the first tracks in the snow down toward the barn since the cows were over in a different field. The air was very cold–so cold my fingers didn’t like it when I stripped off my gloves to take a picture, but the muddy ground under the snow was still a little squishy. With the snow making a blanket over the ground, the freezing temperatures hadn’t reached the mud. But the mud wasn’t showing. Nothing was showing but the pristine white of the snow.
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” ~Aristotle
“Snowflakes are kisses from heaven.” ~Unknown
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” ~Lewis Carroll
I liked the way the snow had coated one side of the trees as I walked back toward the gate. And then the sun peeped up over the horizon.
John Burroughs
“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.”~John Burroughs
The sun lit up the tops of the trees and made them glisten.
“The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.” ~Lama Willa
Some wonders you have to get out early to see. But the snow is still beautiful now with the blue sky as a background. Looking out my window at the cardinals flying in and out to the birdfeeder with the snow making their feathers even brighter red is a treat. And then clumps of snow fall off the tree limbs like individual heavy snow storms.
The dogs and I are glad to be inside in the warm house now. They both had snowballs between their toes and left little puddles of snowy water all over the floor as they thawed out. After their early morning adventure, they’re ready for a nap and I’m ready to step back into the story I’m working on. It’s not winter there, but spring. Spring is good to think about when the snow is heavy on the trees.
So I’ll close with a few more snow quotes and a picture of our pond with the sun touching the trees on its far side.
“Snow isn’t just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a mining town, but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.” ~John Burnside
“When snow falls, nature listens.” ~Antoinette Van Kleef
“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different.” ~J.B. Priestley”
Do you have snow where you live? Do you like it or wish you were somewhere warmer?
“Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers.” ~Kahlil Gibran