Still Winter

Sheesh, got a reminder from Alessia that I haven't posted. Got a reminder from Mr. Wind when I stepped outside this morning that it is still winter. Holy bejeezus it was pretty cold. Thee was a dusting of snow on the ground, but by noon it had disappeared and the sun was out. I bundled up and ventured outside for a walk to one of my favorite spots.

"There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you...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

The Sea

Sometimes I wish this could be the view from my bedroom window. 

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), 

It's always ourself we find in the sea."

-e.e. cummings