ZtonePhruit: A Book of the Seasons: December 20.

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Obscuring the sun,

snow-squalls pass as if blown off

from a larger storm.

Flakes fall large and fast

and when so moist and melting

we think will not last.

Glorious winter,

its elements so simple --

clear air, white snow, ice.

The icy water

reflecting the warm colors

of the sunset sky.

"It has been a glorious winter day,

its elements so simple, —the sharp clear air,

the white snow everywhere covering the earth,

and the polished ice."

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality.”