Fresh Fallen Snow

For most of us, this Friday's first major snowstorm of winter was a chance to stay home and off the slick roads. Snow day! These two words conjure up feelings of childhood as snowmen began to appear, and the playful sounds of children could be heard throughout neighborhoods in and around Bay Shore. Shovels, snowplows, and ice scrapers became the day's soundtrack as we headed out to dig out. 

The view from my window looks like a Norman Rockwell painting as the screen lends itself to a painter's canvas. The morning light creates a sepia; a reddish-brown color associated particularly with monochrome photographs of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The reflection of light off the glistening snow spreads a calm over the landscape. There's something so special about fresh fallen snow.

Winter is a time of solace. As the temperatures drop and plant-life begins to die, we can take comfort in the natural world that surrounds us as it prepares for new life. The sky is clear and crisp, and the Moon and stars are vivid. 

Songs are written about each season, and "Sometimes in Winter" by Blood, Sweat, and Tears is a beautiful expression of some of the times of winter. Let it snow!

Sometimes in winter
I gaze into the streets
And walk through snow and city sleet
Behind your room

Sometimes in winter
Forgotten memories
Remember you behind the trees
With leaves that cried

By the window once I waited for you
Laughing slightly you would run
Trees alone would shield us in the meadow
Makin' love in the evening sun

Now you're gone girl
And the lamp posts call your name
I can hear, them
In the spring of frozen rain
Now you're gone girl
And the time's slowed down till dawn
It's a cold room and the walls ask
Where you've gone

Sometimes in winter
I love you when the good times
Seem like memories in the spring
That never came

Sometimes in winter
I wish the empty streets
Would fill with laughter from the tears
That ease my pain

Peace and Love,

Skylark

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