"...In tiny spherule traced with lines
Of Nature’s geometric signs,
In starry flake, and pellicle,
All day the hoary meteor fell;..."
- from "Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl" by John Greenleaf Whittier
Some of my best winter memories are bounded by snow days. Pity the forever warm-clime dwellers who know no such frosty delight!
this is the land where a River Runs Through it! (I watched that movie yesterday)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous pic coupled with lines from a favorite poem/poet! My kids are already watching the forecast and uttering those sacred-sweet words...snow day?!
Great snow day movie! The setting of town of Lolo, Montana, is just 10 minutes south down the highway from Missoula.
DeleteAnd, now that you mention it, I can hear strains of Whittier's influence in some of your verse