The winter weather warning was right! It snowed all day yesterday, and I am so happy! What a white and glorious wonderland is framed by my window!
The firs and pines are bowed down with their white burden. Each limb of the apple tree is outlined with a ribbon of snow. Six inches of snow soften the ground. Humpy Mountain looks frozen in place.
Everything is so still, hanging in the balance of beauty.
Here is my
Ode to a Winter Landscape
Nothing is so beautiful as a winter landscape
When fire-folks of frost in the frozen fields
Wink rainbows at the morning sun
When the unity of white undoes dappled things
When the squeak of skis on snow
sneaks into the unity of silence
in the snow-muffled forest
When the air is so cold it hurts your teeth to smile
But you can't
stop
smiling
Because nothing is so beautiful
as snow-laden fir boughs against a cobalt sky
the descending blue rushing towards whipped-cream peaks
Nothing is so beautiful as the kiss of snowflakes
whisper-soft from steel-gray clouds
Nothing more magical than the inaudible fall
of snow outside the window
descending like down from overstuffed clouds
the fire at your back shining like shook foil
Nothing is so beautiful as winter stars
splintering in the cold air
of a landscape which—
winter scene
sweet, especial winter scene—
is charged with grandeur
and
gathers to a greatness
of insuperable cold
unsurpassed silence
unconditional beauty
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