Our black little cat,
With soft fluffy fur and keen
Eyes, always alert
Sirius Black (the cat)
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Monthly Archives: February 2017
February in the Hudson Valley
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? 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
Storm King Mountain
Dunderberg Mountain
Wheelabrator Westchester
Iona Island
Bear Mt. Inn
Bear Mt.
Solitude
“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
-Thoreau
A Different Perspective on Shadow (2)
Shadow (2)
A Snow Filled Dream
A
Winter
Wonderland
Stands before me,
Untouched and pristine,
The soft virgin snow waits
As the flakes fall, innocent
And silent, singing a song of
Wonderment and love, asking for
Nothing but tranquility,
The scene, full of beauty,
Only to be one,
Forever lost
In the soft
White fluff,
Peace
Shadow
Hiking on New Years Day.
A Perfect Day
White flakes falling fast,
Pristine wonder on broken
Limb, savor the peace,
Stillness echoing fluffy
Perfection, my heart is free
Jase Enjoying A Snow Day
“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about dancing in the snow.”
“When sow falls, nature listens.”
-Antoinette van Kleeff
“A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky-unbidden-and seems like a thing of wonder.”
-Susan Orlean
My dog Jase playing in the middle of a snowstorm. We thought at first he wouldn’t want to stay outside, but he loved it!!!!
Promise and Hope
Here
I walk
In the path
Of those in my
Past, dusty boots kick
Up memories, the miles
Move on, the wind whispering
What if, the ascension of life,
Marking time only to be
Lost in the swirling mist
Of yesterday,
I still see
Promise,
Hope
The Zen Hiker 