The first snow always startles you. It makes everything look better. In the suburbs it gives a layer of cottony brightness to trees and fences and lawns; it covers the tricycle left in the driveway, turning its little aluminum frame into an abstract sculpture that says: “See how quickly yesterday turns into today”. In farm […]
Snow Quotes
As white as snow.
One New Year’s Eve I was at a party in a farmhouse on a hill above a small Vermont village. By midnight the snow had stopped and the moon had come out. It was one degree below zero. Almost everyone at the party had gone outside to look at the new snow. All around was […]
There may be snow on the roof, but there’s fire in the belly.
Hear the sledges with the bells – Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the […]
The hot sun melts the snows; when anger comes, wisdom goes.
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
A heavy snowfall disappears into the sea. What silence!
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
