NEW SNOW on Mt WASHINGTON RANGE...

THERE WILL BE REST by Sara Teasdale (1889-1933)

                                             

There will be rest,

And sure stars shining

                                                   

Over the roof tops

crowned with snow,

                                                

A reign of rest,

serene forgetting,

                                                            

                              The music of stillness, 

        holy and low.

                                                     I

I will make this world

 of my devising...

                                                

                 Out of a dream

                                in my lonely mind,

I shall find

                                         

            the crystal of peace,

                           above me

                                      

Stars...

                                                 I will find.

                                      

PHOTOGRAPHS FEB 23-2026 Mt. Washington Range, Campbell River, B.C., Canada

 

SNOW BIRDS...

"Winter perches like a bird. Wings tucked in so the soul is heard..." -Angie Wellan-Crosby

Grackle

"In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for..." -Rumi

                                         

"Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, 

Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,

Finch

Yet knows its boughs more silent than before..." -Edna St. Vincent Millay

Stellar Jay                                                       Hum Hum Hum waits for a new nectar feeder....

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness..." -John Keats

Towhee

                                                                                                                         Varied Thrushes

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how to dance..." -e.e.cummings

Junco

"It is the life of the crystal, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter is full of it..." -John Burroughs

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness..." -John Steinbeck

"Fresh snowfall is the closest thing to silence you can see..." -Unknown

Rona, the cat from next door in his winter coat.

"Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear..." 

                                                         -G. Kotsiopoulos

Photographs 2026

 

THIS January in CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C.

"It is deep January. The sky is hard. The sky is hard. Intones its single emptiness. the savagest hollow of winter-sound."   

 -Wallace Stevens

Bridge over the Campbell River

Campbell river is a city on the east coast of Vancouver Island. We're near Quadra Island in Discovery Passage, at the 50th parallel, the Inside Passage!

Discovery Marina

It's the stopping off place for the Discovery islands, Oyster and Gold River, Tahsis, and Zeballos. We're all connected by the Island Hwy, and airport and the Passage. About four hours (toodling along the hwy) north of Victoria...

Some winters, we have been deep in snow. This year, it has been a green winter ( so far), winter's not done with us yet.

Pileated Woodpecker

"The season was waning fast, 

                                   our nights were growing cold at last..." -R Payne

"At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing, than cold..." -E.B.White

Purple Finch (Haemohous purpureus)

And the birds....oh the birds....coastal and marine birds such as loons, grebes, ducks, buffleheads, Surf Scooters,Canada geese, hawks, eagles, woodpeckers, flickers, jays, ravens, gulls, doves, juncos, other passerines ( isn't that a neat word?) like chicadees, and song sparrows, pine siskins, varied thrush. The list goes on.

"Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man..." 

                                                                                       -Victor Hugo

Dogwood Street

Discovery Pier, looking towards Quadra Island and Discovery Passage

"The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps..." -C. Paolini

"I took a walk in the woods, and came out taller than the trees..."

                                                                         -Henry David Thoreau

"Going to the mountains is like going home..." -John Muir

"His old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front..."

                                                    - J.R.R. Tolkien

"We need the tonic of wildness..........to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable."..

- H. D. Thoreau's (Walden: or, Life in the Woods)

"Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part..." -Hermann Broch

Photographs 2026 Campbell River, B.C. Canada