Nov13
Category Archives: snow
Nov7
softly.
and
as
the
first
few
flakes
fell
from
the
sky
joy ruled the day in kinder-land.
—
“the snow fell as softly as a poet’s tears.”
Jan20
first snow.
“he sprinkles snow like birds alighting,
it comes down like locusts settling.
the eye marvels at the beauty of its whiteness,
and the mind is amazed at its falling.”
-ecclesiasticus
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image credit: craftulate
Nov14
fancy water.
kinder happily samples the first batch of playground snow
it ‘tastes like fancy water.’
—
“i leaned out one last time and caught a snowflake on my tongue.
they tasted so good, so pure and so divine,
like nothing I had ever tasted from the sky. ”
Jan15
snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. – andy goldsworthy
the first sled ride of the year with a pile of my kinders.
Jan6
the magic is back.
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,
and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
– j.b. priestly
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image credit: national wildlife federation
