Thoughts...

This quote really captures how I feel about winter. I love each season but I do need a time to rest and winter gives me that time.
 Now that we live in the country again we are enjoying how the world shuts down during and after a snowstorm. The mail does not come, the schools and stores close ,the roads are quiet, there is a silence that only winter brings.
Winter is coming to an end and I can honestly say that it was a wonderful season of rest and time with family. We enjoyed hot coffee with lots of milk in the morning and reading books by the fire at night. We enjoyed the wonder of freshly fallen snow. We wore woolen hats that kept us warm even when the Polar Vortex plunged temperatures below zero. We embraced winter and now we look forward to spring a time of rebirth and hope for what the coming year holds.


~"There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you...
 In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself." ~ Ruth Stout

Fear not, spring is coming. :)