FIRST SNOW 2025...Mt. WASHINGTON Range

SNOW (1924) by Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) 

                No breath of wind, no gleam of sun-

Still the white snow whirls softly down

                              Twig and bough and blade and thorn

All in an icy quiet, forlorn.

                                 Whispering, rustling, through the air

On still and stone, roof...everywhere,

                                      It heaps its powdery crystal flakes,

Of every tree

                                                  a mountain makes;

'Til pale and faint

                                              At shut of day

Stoops from the West

                                                      One wintr'y ray,

And feathered

                                                                     In fire..............

A robin shrills His lonely tune.

      "If snow melts down to water, does it remember being snow?"  - Jennifer MacMahon

 Photographs 2025 Mt. Washington Range , Campbell River, B.C., Canada