“That time of year thou mayst in me behold/When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang/Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,/Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.”—Shakespeare

“When wind is in the deadly East, then in the bitter rain I’ll look for thee, and call to thee; I’ll come to thee again.”—J.R.R. Tolkien

“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!”—Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Sunday on the Loop du Mimi

“When Frost was spectre-grey …”

Winter field

Arise

Solstice/The Second Day

“Grandeur … consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.” ~ Charles Kingsley

Amaryllis

Going under

Winter garden

Golden Larch

Linden ll

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” –Martin Buber

Star dance

Mystery

On our way

Antiphonal

Linden