WINTER is COMING...

                                             "LISTEN...

...with faint dry sound like steps of passing ghosts,

                                 ...the leaves, frost-crisped, break from the trees

        ...and fall." -Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)

"Beyond the murky hill, the great sky darkens overhead...

                  ...and the great woods are shrill.

...the breeze from the embalmed land blows sudden towards the shore....

                             ...the night at Your command comes. 

...I will eat and sleep and will not question more."

-Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1994)

"From shadows shaken on the snow, I saw Orion in the east burn steadily as long ago.

                                           ...from windows in my father's house, 

...dreaming my dreams on  winter nights.

Years go, dreams go, the world's heart breaks beneath its wars

                                                                    ...All things are changed...

          ...save in the east...


                                                     

...the faithful beauty of the stars." -Sara Teasdale(1884-1933) 

("WINTER STARS",excerpts, written in 1920 after WW1)

Photographs 2025 Campbell River, B.C.