Sharing Snow-thoughts with Authors and Musicians

                    "Leaves are brown, now

                    And the sky is a hazy shade of winter."   Simon & Garfunkel

 

 

 

  

 

 

                                         Thrill of the first snow

                             

                                "Catch the breeze and the winter chills

                                  In colours on the snowy linen land."   Don McLean

 

 

                  " The Inuit have fifty names for snow because it is important to them; 

                    there ought to be as many for love."   Margaret Atwood

 

                                                           Finn's tree

                                   first "Winter Wonderland" snow  70% melted the next day

 

 

                                    Flora's tree with christmas snow

                                    Moody grey skies make many shots look B&W.

 

 

                                           Tamarack tree on Tamarack road

                                     "Like the snow on the stark spruce limb

                                   Coated with ice, then stripped by the wind 

                                   We melt away and return again."   Bruce Cockburn

 

                                               

                                                      Bayfield Bamboo

             "Whatever I thought I used to know, the breath of flowers beneath the snow."

              Chris Whitley

 

 

 

 "Beneath this snowy mantle cold and clean.  The unborn grass lies

                       waiting for its coat to turn green."   Gene MacLellan

 

 

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I

took the one less traveled by."   Robert Frost

 

 

 

 

snowball tree

                           "All the willow winding paths, leading us up and outward. "  

                            Judy Collins

 

                                     "Up in the morning, up in the morning

                                   When the streets are white with snow

                                    It's a hard road, it's a hard road, daddy-o."  Van Morrison

 

                                 "But I would walk through the snow barefoot

                                If you'd open up your door."   K.D. Lang

 

 

 

                           "Take the road that I have walked along,

                          Looking for the tomorrow's time, peace of mind.   Leonard Cohen

                             

                               "Kindness is the snow - It beautifies everything it covers." 

                             Kahlil Gibran 

 

                                                  Not all the neighbours are friendly.  It's actually a log pile.

 

                                                        Our neighbours' cute lollipop trees.

                                               best gift of our christmas 2020 was a fresh snowfall

                                       Just some of the forest destruction at the hand of our park owner.

                                                                    Ouch!

                                               I thought these snakes hibernated!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                  "Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night."

                                   Virginia Woolf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

reflections in Goderich Square

 

 

christmas lights homes tour

 

 

                         "What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter 

                         to give it sweetness."   John Steinbeck

 

 

                                                               our little live christmas tree

 

 

 

                                                             my fave image of xmas light shots

                                 "Where the treetops glisten and the children listen

                                To hear sleigh bells in the snow"   Irving Berlin

 

                                     "A still pool in the forest has ceased to reflect

                                       anything except the past."   Al Purdy

 

                       "Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on"   Joni Mitchell

 

 

 

                                               "North wind about to break

                                           On footprints in the snow

                                           Silence down below."   Bob Dylan 

 

                                             

                                      the corner hangout

 

 

                           

                                      

                             "It is in our nature to travel into our past,   

                              hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils 

                              the present."   Farley Mowat

                         "I also walk for the benefits of nature therapy.   Between November

                        and March, walking is when I pay attention to the onset, deep hold 

                        and gradual release of winter."   Stuart McLean

 

                                                 petrified elephant