10 ODES TO BEAUTIFUL SNOW NOW
― Mary Oliver
“The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again.”
― Charles Finch, The Last Enchantments.
“I love early snow now, though. Especially snow that happens when you least expect it and just sprinkles down for a while. It feels like a secret.”
― Kate Messner, The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
“Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen.
“A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster.
“Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder -- no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”
― Candace Bushnell, Lipstick Jungle.
“Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.”
― Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel).
“Inner peace is a quiet evening moonlight walk in the soft falling snow of our minds.”
― Wes Adamson
“Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?”
― John B. Tabb
Read more about Beautiful Snow, as it relates to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact including The Most Beautiful Accounts of Beautiful Snow Now, Fascinating & Beautiful New Snow Discoveries Now, Beautiful Snow Delectables Now, Impossibly Beautiful but Real Snow Jewels Now and Mind Blowing Places to Go for Snow Now.
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PHOTO CREDITS:
- Photo: by Jono Hey. Snoqualmie Pass Corduroy.
- Photo: by Tambako the Jaguar. Small Trees Under Snow.
- Photo: by Mazier Hooshmand. Vancouver in Snow.
- Photo: by Ferran Jorda. Snow Days.
- Photo: by Alexander Kavun. Snowflake.
- Photo: by Patrick Emerson. Snow Day.
- Photo: by Anthony Quintano. Historic Lake Effect Snow in Buffalo New York Area.
- Photo: by David McSpadden. Blue Ice, Spun Snow, Warm Day.
- Photo: by Viktoria Wigenstam. Snow.
- Photo: by Steve Johnson. Tatoosh Snow.
- Photo: by Andreas Tille. Snow in Germany.
