Winter is here, white snow, cold brisk windy days and the holiday of course...family friends...food and hopefully some joyous moments and memories ......

Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again.
~Bill Morgan, Jr.

Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat. ~Author Unknown

The joy of children playing ...

I hope everyone has a joy filled holiday, and never forget those 'little' things that make you smile.....

Brew me a cup for a winter’s night.
For the wind howls loud, and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I’ll toast your bright eyes, my sweetheart fair.
~Minna Thomas Antrim

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold. ~Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes

Let us never forget those who fight for our freedoms, the ones we enjoy everyday and at holiday time, God Bless Them All~♥

Oh I just love it...Autumn....the time of pumpkins and squash...spices and the beautiful colored leaves....that crisp fall air...

O' pumpkin pie, your time has come 'round again and I am autumnrifically happy! ~Terri Guillemets

Autumn binds poetry in its own withered leaves. ~Terri Guillemets

..I see
the turning of a leaf
dancing in an autumn sun,
and brilliant shades of crimson
glowing when a day is done...
~Hazelmarie "Mattie" Elliott

When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves —
Welcome wool sweaters.
~B. Cybrill

The bright summer had passed away, and gorgeous autumn was flinging its rainbow-tints of beauty on hill and dale. ~Cornelia L. Tuthill

October gave a party;

The leaves by hundreds came,—
The Ashes, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The sunshine spread a carpet,
And every thing was grand;
Miss Weather led the dancing;
Professor Wind, the band....
The sight was like a rainbow
New-fallen from the sky....
~George Cooper (1840–1927)

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Oh how we love pumpkin season. You did know this gourd-ish squash has its own season, right? Winter, Spring, Summer, Pumpkin.... We anxiously anticipate it every year. ~Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer,

Autumn fun...Halloween......

                                                                          

Oh Spring and soon summer....how time flies. The buds and blooms and fresh cut grass. What wonderful smells and beauty they bring. Take time to inhale...enjoy the sun, the nice weather, even the rain that we need, the sound of it....I love that sound. Enjoy the cool summer treats and fruits and veggies. Be grateful for the little things that make you smile.♥

Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.
~Barry Cornwall

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. ~Celia Thaxter

Each fairy breath of summer, as it blows with loveliness, inspires the blushing rose. ~Author Unknown

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James



The luxury of all summer's sweet sensation is to be found when one lies at length in the warm, fragrant grass, soaked with sunshine, aware of regions of blossoming clover and of a high heaven filled with the hum of innumerous bees. ~Harriet E. Prescott, The Atlantic Monthly, August 1865


[W]oods are filled with the music of birds, and all nature is laughing under the glorious influence of Summer. ~Charles Lanman, "The Dying Year," 1840

And don't forget to keep your fur babies cool this summer. ♥

 Winter...almost here, with it's crisp cold air and biting cold. Warm drinks and a season of family and festivities and for contemplating the new year ahead...

 

 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, "Winter Sunshine"

I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show. ~Andrew Wyeth

                                                                           

One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb

Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again.
~Bill Morgan, Jr.

 

 I hide myself in the quiet white of Winter and
nestle in her comforting folds of cold oblivion.
~Terri Guillemets



 Ever grateful for those tiny moments that bring us joy...that make us smile..the things life is made of.....

Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless. ~Terri Guillemets

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year! ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "April Days," 1861


What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ~Author Unknown