Big Or Little - Clark Fork River, Missoula, Montana

“A man is about as big as

 the things that make him angry.”
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Holding Up The Winter Sky - Lolo, Montana

“I prefer winter and fall,

 when you can feel the bone structure

 in the landscape---the loneliness of it---the dead

 feeling of winter.

Something waits beneath it---the whole story doesn't show.”

- Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)

Winter Snow and Sunshine - Greenough Park, Missoula, Montana

Winter officially - at last! - and there is plenty of poetic odes to this season.

Click here to immerse in some popular winter poetry, including the full text of Douglas Florian's "Winter Eyes", 
and here to appreciate Janet Martin's thoughtful verse for now or any time of year.

"Look at winter
With winter eyes
As smoke curls from rooftops
To clear cobalt skies.

Breathe in winter
Past winter nose:
The sweet scent of black birch
Where velvet moss grows.
Walk through winter
With winter feet
On crackling ice
Or sloshy wet sleet....."
 - from Winter Eyes by Douglas Florian

Uncomplicated Cottonwoods - Bitterroot Valley, Montana

"All the complicated details 
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!...."

-From  Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

Winter Trees - Corvallis, Montana

"She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing."- from Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis

Winter Trees - Missoula,Montana

“…Leaves have been stripped like trials of love
Joy runs like a river under the fallow earth
You come back to me without aplomb
Compassion needs no justifications….

By the oak fire forgive
Your voice is a discreet candle
It's all inward though mountains laugh
Winter trees have a quiet beauty”

- From Winter Trees by Joseph Narusiewicz
(Read this full poem and more of Narusiewicz’s verse in the text links above.)