Thinning Ice - Missoula, Montana

"It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water." - Franklin P. Jones (1908-1980)

Ice Shore Tracks - Missoula,Montana

"I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime." - Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Cozy Cup Weather - Missoula, Montana

"Brew me a cup for a winter's night.
For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I'll toast our bright eyes,
my sweetest fair."
- Minna Thomas Antrim (1861-1950)

Winter Riverbank Trees - Missoula, Montana

"Of winter's lifeless world each tree
Now seems a perfect part;
Yet each one holds summer's secret
Deep down within its heart."
- Charles G. Slater


(My apologies for the lack of hyperlink to Mr. Slater - found myself frustrated in a search for the right Charles G. Slater. Should you find a bio for this poet, you'd also find me much obliged if you shared!)

Wise Pine - Missoula, Montana

"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship." - Norman Douglas (1868-1952)

Wider Snowy World - Missoula, Montana

“If we were tomorrow morning snowed up in the street in which we live, we should step suddenly into a much larger and much wilder world than we have ever known.” – from Heretics by G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

Rooftop Snow Rows - Missoula, Montana

"Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside." - Bonnie Hunt

Sweet Words - Missoula, Montana

"Silence, a silence that breathed kindness, the silence of a woman wrapping herself in a man's kind words as if in an expensive fur. And at last, very sweetly, very courageously for someone as formalistic as her, she said, 'I wanted to hear your voice, too.' - From Traitors To All, p 139-140,  by Giorgio Scerbanenco (1911-1969), The Godfather of Italian Noir

(In case you hadn't noticed, Valentine's Day candy is already out in stores. And I must say, some of the new candy heart messages are rather odd. But sweet words are never out of season.)