Snow Bunnies, Stopping By Woods [on a Snowy Evening], and Winter Wonderlands: What We Talk About When We Talk About Snow Glow

"The wind may blow the snow about,

For all I care, says Jack,

And I don't mind how cold it grows,

For then the ice won't crack.

Old folks may shiver all day long,

But I shall never freeze;

What cares a jolly boy like me

For Winter days like these?"

-from A Country Boy in Winter by Sarah Orne Jewett

I half feel like apologizing for posting so many snow pictures all of the sudden, but it's really just because I feel so desperately like I've got to make you understand why I am so enamored with this time of year, and the snow, and everything that comes with it. I suppose I could try to write a little something, but since I happen to have all these photographs, it really just seems like (for the time being) I ought to try and show you. Maybe I'll tell you about it later, when I run out of images, or have a little more time. For now, I think this will do. I hope so. Winter is the best, you know. It'd be a shame if you couldn't appreciate it.

Photographs taken by the inimitable Patty C., my grandmother and the finest leader of woodland/swamp-bottom expeditions I have ever met.