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.