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.

DO NOT PASS BY...

THE SOLITARY WAFARER by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) 

from "Gitanjali", published in 1913

In the deep shadow of the rain, 

with secret steps,

You walk, silent as night....

                                                           

eluding all watchers.

Today the morning has closed its eyes, heedless of the insistent calls

                                                          

                          of the loud east wind....

...and a thick veil has been drawn

                                                                

                        over the ever wakeful blue sky.

The woodlands have hushed their songs,

                                                             

                          and doors are shut at every house.

You are the solitary wayfarer in this deserted street.

                                                          

oh, my only Friend,

my best Beloved,

                                                               

the gates are open in my house...

                                               Do not pass by......

                                                           

Like a Dream.....

 Photographs 2026. Last two pics from Elk Falls, posted with permission from Morgan W.

Campbell River, B.C.