My, I wonder if we have finally have had our fair share of sleet and snow....though I do love it, I worry about those out and about driving...loved ones..friends....Winter has it's good side and it's bad side too....but I love it so.......

Soon the flowers will peek out from the hard earth as always...Mother Nature never fails.....buds will bloom...birds will sing....

The Dawn is a wild, fair woman,
With sunrise in her hair;
Look where she stands, with pleading hands,
To lure me there.
~Robert Loveman, c.1901

Until then I drink my hot coffee and tea and soups...enjoying each and every sip....

 
coffee in the morning of course...

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. ~Henry Ward Beecher
 

The eye of the poet still loves to view
The earth in the light of morn;
When each object comes in its happiest hue,
When all looks pure, and unstain’d, and new...
Ere the air’s first freshness is worn away...
Ere the sultry sun, in the glare of his pride
Hath dash’d all the dewy drops aside...
Ere man moves forth with his thoughts of care,
With his wearied step, and his selfish air,
And his ominous looks to cloud the scene,
Where brightness and beauty alone have been.
~Thomas Furlong, "Morning Meditations"

Aww too cute..*

Well off to make another cup of something hot to warm the bones and sooth the soul.....