Simply..J B Priestley....

14/1/2015

ON SNOW

You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

(Photograph from 2010)

8 Comments

Alison

14/1/2015 10:26:25 am

There's a quote from L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables that I sometimes think of when the first real snowfall of the year happens:

"The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them."

Penny L

14/1/2015 04:05:49 pm

Snow is definately enchanting when it casts that other worldly light when you wake up!am very jealous!
I love that quote from Anne of Green Gables. So apt.

Freda

15/1/2015 05:29:44 am

It's almost gone already - but there may be more next week..

Freda

15/1/2015 05:28:42 am

Thank you for this. I love it!

elaine link

14/1/2015 07:44:15 pm

"At five in the morning, I woke to a wonderful silence. I went to the window and pushed it open carefully. A little heap of snow fell inwards on to the ledge. A light wind was taking it now, moulding and shaping it against the hedges and fences. Everything was bone-white, under the riding moon. I wanted to go out and walk in the fields by myself, to watch for owls and foxes and smell the night smells. Dull common sense and tiredness prevailed. I returned to bed and have ever afterwards regretted it, for such times come rarely and the countryside under the first, heavy fall of snow at four in the morning is a changed and an enchanted place, the imagination would feed upon the memory of it for ever after."

Extract from The Magic Apple Tree - Susan Hill

Freda

15/1/2015 05:30:43 am

Isn't that beautiful? I thought it was you speaking at first Elaine! Thank you.

Swissrose link

14/1/2015 08:40:01 pm

How funny, just listening to an Anne story (again!)… ;)

Freda

15/1/2015 05:31:19 am

I don't think I ever read it!

Simply..J B Priestley....

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