"The Moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow

Gave a luster of midday to objects below. When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer..."

"Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen! On. Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donner and Blitzen!"

~ A Visit From St. Nicholas, Clement Clark Moore, 1823

Photo: The Niagara Escarpment, West Hamilton. Taken last winter when we had snow ~ Lorna