JOURNEY....

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other lives, other souls.."

-Anais Nin

She stood on the edge  of forever. She looked for his hand,  as  snow tumbled down. It was a long step. Winter sang out their destiny. A very wonderful dance into the wild.

Time tumbled by as the thrush sang its plaintive song, low and sweet.

She stood on the steps of what was, and what was to be.  Precious moments fluttering  like angel wings. She reached, again, for his  hand.

Winter breathed fire and ice over them. 

Mountains trembled with  stars. She looked back. To see where her world had been, before Winter’s snow veiled her eyes.

A new journey. Of what had never been, but was meant to be.

The wind  played  sweet melodies  above  dark branches in the sky.

Winter saw her in this world. Saw her light.  And the world saw her.

She stood on the threshold. The old one drifting far.

She reached for his hand, and grasped it at last. 

Winter breathed :  “Take a step. We’ll be here. Take a step..”

She took a step, with his hand held fast in hers.

She did not look back this time. 

Snow danced. The light  took them

Into  the ends of the world; into the journey,

And Winter whispered: “I will miss you....”

Photographs 2024  "For A and D"  

 

AT Minus 20 Celsius

"Winter is a season that sparkles with magic and transforms our ordinary world into a glittering kingdom"- Abi Elphinstone

"I like these cold, grey winter days.." - Bill Watterson

"Christmas isn't just a day..." -Valentine Davies

"Christmas. It brings people together while time stands still...."

                                                                                                    -Rachel Cohn

"Snow always makes me think of ice cream..." -Jane Wilson-Howith

"This is the message of Christmas....we are never alone...." -Taylor Caldwell

"Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night..." -Novala Takemoto

"Every snowflake I caught was a miracle unlike any other...."

                                             -Alice Hoffman

"Christmas is a tonic for our souls...." - B.C. Forbes

"Snow is covering us. Close your eyes and sleep. Close your eyes and dream. This is one story. There will be another...." -Jeanette Winterson

                                "Winter is not just a season, it is a celebration.." -Anamika Mishra

"The earth has grown old , with its burden of care, but at Christmas it is young...." -Phillips Brooks

"Sometimes I would like to be a child again...." - Deirdre Sullivan

"All that is gold does not glitter.  Not all those who wander are lost. The old that is strong does not wither. Deep roots are not reached by the frost...." -J.R.R. Tolkien

Photographs 2021 Christmas Week
 

SNOW DAY II....

"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields.....covers them up till summer comes again?" -Lewis Caroll 
                       (Alice's adventures in Wonderland)

 "Snow was falling , so much like stars..." - Mary Oliver

 "Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night...."
                       -― Novala Takemoto

 "There's just something beautiful..." -― Carol Rifka Brunt,

 "Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow.." - Roman Payne

 "Thank goodness for the first snow.." ― Candace Bushnell

 "The hollowness was in his arms, and the world was snowing.." -― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

 "If snow melts down into water, does it remember being snow?" -― Jennifer McMahon

 "A small and sinister snow was coming down....."
                                    -Edward Gorey, Floating Worlds:

 "Morning broke without a sun..." -― John Greenleaf Whittier

                         "It snowed all week..." - Truman Capote

 "The wastes of snow were ghostly in the moonlight..."
                                    ― Maud Hart Lovelace

  "Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as the eye could see..." ― Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day

Photographs 2020