fickle weather...

Saturday it was 67 degrees...amazing! The bees were out, the birds were singing, I set the ferns on our porch to drink in the sunshine.

We had dreams of this...

However; last night we had snow...coming down quite heavily in fact. And so today, this little visitor is at the feeder with friends, where they all can be seen ruffling their feathers and turning away from the wintry winds.

What is Mother Nature up to?!

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing,

wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating;

there is really no such thing as bad weather,

only different kinds of good weather.”

John Ruskin, 1819~1900

last blast of winter?

The winter has been long here, and downright bone-chilling some days. But now that it's March, soon enough, the winds howling across the fields will slacken, warm, and there will be sunshine and the first hints of green. We'll tentatively open a window and take in the sweet aroma of a new season.

But until then, it's good to revisit some of our wintertime memories. As cold has the season has been, it was certainly filled with snowy fun!

The sledding hill...ready for some fun!

First run down the hill...

Whee ha!!

Walking back up is always less fun than sledding down.

Now THIS is the way to go up a hill!

I love the Stillmeadow books by Gladys Taber...they're all about country life, simple things, the changing seasons, and her experiences of living in an old farmhouse. 

This quote is by her, and seems to sum up our past winter season...

“We need time to dream,
time to remember,

 and time to reach the infinite.

Time to be.”

-Gladys Taber