The clumps are significant on leaves and branches, and details of the topography have all been smoothed to pure white softness. Tiny icicles, even, like crystal ear drops. Freshly fallen snow is stunning in its beauty, but I can see how trying to function in it would get toilsome and wearing ( Read more... )

So we have been snowed into very pleasant surroundings. Each morning I make tea and fill the gigantic bathtub, drop some essential oils in it, and soak and sip tea. These past two mornings, this is what I look out at:


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As rachelmanija's folks are away, we came up here to take care of eight cats (seven spotted) and to work. What a delight to find it snowing two days ago ( Read more... )

. . was the winter of 1972, in Vienna.
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