“Winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel…
if you know where to look for it.” ̶ Henry David Thoreau * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
if you know where to look for it.” ̶ Henry David Thoreau * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
Robed in vestments of love and passion, he infuses a measure of warmth and life into the cold and barren world around him. * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2014
falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder. ̶ Susan Orlean * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. ̶ Anton Chekhov * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.” ― Jamie McGuire * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’ ― Lewis Carroll Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
As if to dress the winter marsh, cattails turn their cigar heads into a white and fluffy mass of seeds, ready to drift off in the wind and build new colonies for spring. * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. ― Oscar Wilde Take advantage of this special Life Is Full of Sweet Spots offer and share a spot of holiday sunshine this season. * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset.” ― Rabindranath Tagore Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
True to its name, this winterberry holly heralds the pending change of season with clusters of red berries. Commonly called black alder, its leaves turn black before dropping off. Its berries, however, brighten the landscape well into the winter months—assuming, that is, that the birds don’t get to them first. * * * Photo by Mary … More Black is a misnomer