Deep Winter Scenes

 We did not see many birds on our January outing but the winter landscape was beautiful in a brilliant, icy way in Old Order Mennonite country. I will not complain about scraping car windows or sitting on hard frozen seats until the heater warms when I contemplate what it must be like to travel by horse and buggy at twenty below.

Every mile is two in winter. 

~George Herbert

 

 "Pale January lay
In its cradle day by day
Dead or living, hard to say."
  Alfred Austin, Primroses

"January is here, with eyes that keenly glow,
A frost-mailed warrior
striding a shadowy steed of snow."
Edgar Fawcett

 "It is deep January.  The sky is hard.  The stalks are firmly rooted in ice."

Wallace Stevens

Quotes from egreenway