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

 

NEW MOUNTAIN SNOW...

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in mean invincible summer..." -Albert Camus

"That's what winter is: remembering how to still yourself, and then come pliantly back to life..." -Ali Smith
              rainforest....Mist...quiet

"When there's snow on the ground, I like to pretend I'm walking on clouds..." -Takayuki Ikkaku

"Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night..." -Virginia Wolf
 
“Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness.”

- Mary Oliver

In winter.......look up , far up, into the mountains...

"It was a black and white day of frost..." -Robert S. Hichens

                                       

“Christmas ghosts visit

rearranging emotions
tears waltz among smiles”
- Susie Clevenger

         "There is a wilder solitude in winter..."-May Sarton

                                     

“Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgment, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds—the indivisible shared out in endless abundance.” —Denise Levertov

"I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits. I belong to the earth and its winter..." 

                                                             -Pablo Neruda

Photographs 2026 Mt Washington range February 2026, Campbell River, B.C.