a part of our life

Alabaster, ivory, opal, pearl. Even the names for white are lovely.

I spent the week travelling for work, first to Chicago, then to Kansas City. After the first few days it turned cold, and the snow flurried, but to no avail. It blew across the streets like sugar, but didn't stick.

I think we won't get any proper snow this winter. No whipped cream drifts for the dogs to plow through like maniacs, no downy cloudbursts of feathery flakes, no crystalline silent woods to explore. I think I'll have to get my fix of white elsewhere this year.  

 The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things 

beyond the reach of all personal feeling, 

almost beyond the reach of life. 

Yet such things are a part of our life, 

neither the least noble nor the most terrible. 

~ Frederick Soddy

one thing and one thing only

We're supposed to get another 6" of snow tomorrow. This will be 25 days of the past 50 that we've had snow. Twice as much as "normal." It's okay with me. I LOVE snow.

White, clean, quiet.

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The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. 

There is no other time when the whole world seems composed 

of one thing and one thing only. 

~ Joseph Wood Krutch

In other news, yesterday was my 300th blog post and I didn't even notice. More important things to think about in this mind o'mine...


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the wise trees

Snow, again, and bare trees. 

I love this sparse season. 

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Winter Trees 

by William Carlos Williams

All the complicated details

of the attiring and 

the disattiring are completed! 

A liquid moon 

moves gently among 

the long branches. 

Thus having prepared their buds 

against a sure winter 

the wise trees 

stand sleeping in the cold.

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