... and Then the Snow...

Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  
One of those mornings when I awake in white and smile...  

Artful Winter

Flat Rock Wildlife Sanctuary, Massachusetts
  
Cold, crisp and moist, the low Sun...
 She comes with her toolbox
     and makes subtle forms burst to life while in sleep...  

From Which We Came

Crane Beach, Massachusetts  

The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth,
it can lie down like silk breathing
or toss havoc shoreward; it can give

gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth,
like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can
sweet-talk entirely. As I can too,

and so, no doubt, can you, and you.

MARY OLIVER, A Thousand Mornings

GIFTS

Crane Beach, Massachusetts
  
... with gusto...   

Sleepless

Breakheart Reservation, Massachusetts
  
Sleepy browns all around
  except the mosses,
    living brightly on this cloudy winter day... 

First Snow

Great Brook Farm State Park, Massachusetts
  
Morning sunrays reflect off light snow cover... in silence...
  How brilliant are these early hours,
   with the snow crystals still intact and my steps caught in the passing...