The pure white of the winter fallen snow. Or the crisp cold air,
it makes you feel alive!
I sit next to the fireplace sunk into my old comfy chair that embraces me like a warm hug, and I gaze out my back door into the yard and
I ponder….what makes winter romantic?
I try to find reasons to love where I live. I’ll tell you that I love all four seasons, and that I don’t want to live somewhere that only has one;
the same thing day after day. So let’s address the winter season in upstate New York……
Have you ever watched the snow fall, I mean really watched it, stood outside and let the flakes fall all around you? Think about it, there really is nothing else that can fall from the heavens in such magnitude, (except maybe rain, but that an get old real fast, unless your 9), so many of them plummeting from the sky, landing on you and yet you’ll never feel any pain, they are nothing, and yet they are a most incredible creation, each and every one different. Falling to the ground in utter silence….Stillness.
And as they land on the ground the accumulation produces a landscape of white…pure white.
The birds still sing in the cold of the air, the deer still frolic and play, the ducks still gather on the canal where there is the slightest bit of water left unfrozen. The trees still stand in all there glory, each branch balancing just the right amount of snow, what a beautiful sight.
A WINTER ROMANCE….
A walk though the park reveals a silence almost deafening, until the silence is broken with the song of one small chickadee. What a wonder, this season we call winter. So give up your cabin fever. Go outside and breath!
As for me, I’m throwing on my hat and scarf, zipping up my boots, and heading out, the snow crunches beneath my feet, I head past the wood pile, past the bird feeders, and past the small picket fence, to the barn, where I do all my creating. There is much to do before spring!
Maybe I will paint something white today!
Blessings to you all!
Jackie
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