Of winter’s lifeless world each tree
Now seems a perfect part;
Yet each one holds summer’s secret
Deep down within its heart.
~Charles G. Stater

Ah, the white glistening snow....falling softly.....now turning to ice....looks beautiful but oh so dangerous out there....mother nature is amazing.....her beauty.....her wrath........
Up again....can't sleep.....might as well make a little post and share some thoughts and pics and quotes...

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. ~Ruth Stout

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"

Well, it's so much more lovely in the country....here in the city it does not stay 'white' very long...so you have to enjoy it while you can.....

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, "A Night Cap," A Book of Toasts, 1902

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

Ta ta for now...................