Evening, Wisdom and Beauty!!

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

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt
away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
 George R.R. Martin

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.  Stanley Crawford