In the Bleak Midwinter*

Canadian Winter

"Snow has fallen, and everything is white.  It is very cold...I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moonlight ~ white trees, white fields ~ the heaps of stone by the roadside white ~ snow in the furrows...If he were to come I could not even hear his footsteps."

~ Katherine Mansfield, 1914 (Buckinghamshire) Oct. 14, 1888- Jan. 9, 1923  Writer of short stories. Born in New Zealand.  Spent years in England where she became friends with Virgina Woolf and D.H. Lawrence.
(Photo:  for our friends wintering in Florida, U.S.A. "Close your eyes for a moment.")  Photo taken snowstorm Dec. 29, 2012.
* Poem by English poet, Christina Rossetti