Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
~Pietro Aretino
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
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
~Andrew Wyeth
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
Taking a brief walk around our yard
to capture small wonders
of this chilly gray January day
made me a very...
Happy Me-Laurie Z
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Lovely! Beauty is always there if you look hard enough, huh?
ReplyDeleteSuch gorgeous photos, Laurie! The greenness that's still there reminds me of a poem I wrote in when I was living in England - all about winter life fires that still burn if you know where to look for them :-)
ReplyDeleteBlessings and thank you for sharing these!
TANJA
Nice photos. My first year in Hawaii. Here I am in January wearing shorts and tank tops or even a bikini for most the day. The plants are lush. I have huge hibiscus blooming at my front door. I love it...and when I see winter right now it seems so far away.
ReplyDeleteMahalo for sharing.
Love these photos...thx or sharing some Winter Green! :)
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