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[TXchickmum]

Glorious!


"....Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear
Has grown familiar with your song;
I hear it in the opening year,
I listen, and it cheers me long." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from Woods in Winter

 

[sourland]

pains

 

[TXchickmum]

ethereal

"Hushed the bird-voices and the hum of bees,
In the thin grass the crickets pipe no more;
But still the squirrel hoards his winter store,
And drops his nut-shells from the shag-bark trees.
Softly the dark green hemlocks whisper: high
Above, the spires of yellowing larches show,
Where the woodpecker and home-loving crow
And jay and nut-hatch winter's threat defy.
O gracious beauty, ever new and old!
O sights and sounds of nature, doubly dear
When the low sunshine warns the closing year
Of snow-blown fields and waves of Arctic cold!
Close to my heart I fold each loving thing
The sweet day yields......" -John Greenleaf Whittier (excerpts from A Day)

 

[sourland]

torturous

 

[TXchickmum]

contemplative

"Long yellow rushes bending
above the white snow patches;
purple and gold ribbon
of the distant wood:
what an angle
you make with each other as
you lie there in contemplation." - William Carlos Williams (from January Morning, XII)

 

[sourland]

bone chilling

 

[TXchickmum]

peaceful...

"Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." -John Muir

 

[theoldchick]

puke

 

[sourland]

frozen

 

[TXchickmum]

lovely.....

"Then there is always one possible superb fortune. You may see the woods in snow. There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. That is a loveliness to which surely none can be insensitive. It is the still ecstasy of Nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance.......It is beauty so great and complex that the imagination is stilled into an aching hush." - William Sharp (Fiona MacLeod) from Where the Forest Murmurs