PLUCK UP THE HEART AND GET THROUGH

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Camelot, Coke, Emily Dickinson, Polar bear, postaweek2012, Snow, snowfa, snowhawk, snowplump, The Snow poem, winter

The Snow

It sifts from leaden sieves,
It powders all the wood,
It fills with alabaster wool
The wrinkles of the road.

It makes an even face
Of mountain and of plain, –
Unbroken forehead from the east
Unto the east again. 

It reaches to the fence,
It wraps it, rail by rail,
Till it is lost in fleeces;
It flings a crystal veil

On stump and stack and stem, –
The summer’s empty room,
Acres of seams where harvests were,
Recordless, but for them.

It ruffles wrists of posts,
As ankles of a queen, –
Then stills its artisans like ghosts,
Denying they have been.

~~By Emily Dickinson

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I lost the habit of winter until…
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… today’s down-home charming surprise.

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Fridge-cool and frosty, but not enough for a snow plump.

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Or a snow hawk.

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or even a

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But just enough for a snowfa.

Like the one the Coke polar bears chill on.

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Or this sui generis spot for a snowguy on Main Street in Beacon, N.Y. (photo by Russ Cusick)

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Snow demands our attention with its beauty and its bother.  But in Camelot, cabin fever has an end date.  It’s True!  It’s True!

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So, in anticipation of Happy Everaftering, meet me here ~ March 2, on the dot.

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Toni 2/24/12

CAMELOT

POOR MAN’S FERTILIZER

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nitrogen, nutrients, poor man's fertilizer, postaweek2011, spring snow, winter

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The crocuses are up, the forsythia is in bud, the grass is turning green.

And. It’s. Snowing.

My dad taught me to celebrate a spring snow. That it’s good for the crops and helps everything green up. “A year of snow, crops grow.” Just old Yankee folklore?

Not according to scientists.

Snow contains nutrients and also a lot of moisture. And if that snow falls on ground that’s not frozen, like now, then the nutrients and moisture in that snow can penetrate into the soil and do some good for the plants. Snow contains nitrogen, and more of it now than it has in the past because of acid rain. Who knew?

So today~

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….But tomorrow~

 

Toni 3/21/11

STALKING THE WILD MAD STONE ~ RANDOM, LATELY

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Emily Dickinson, nature, nikki giovanni, poems, postaweek2011, shel silverstein, Snow, snow day, time, walking, winter

Each moment is a place where you’ve never been.

///////////////////////////////////////////`~Mark Strand

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The best moments are small and simple.   And pictures stop those moments from getting away.  Here are some random shots taken while slow walking/photo wandering.

Pause to take a photo…It’s a Good Thing.

 

 

We trust in plumed procession
For such the angels go -
Rank after Rank, with even feet -
And uniforms of Snow.
~Emily Dickinson

 

 

 

The best part of happiness is the pines.  ~Terri Guillemets

 

 

 

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
~Carl Sandburg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

once a snowflake fell
on my brow and I loved
it so much and I kissed
it and it was happy and called its cousins
and brothers and a web
of snow engulfed me then
I reached to love them all
and I squeezed them and they became
a spring rain and I stood perfectly
still and was a flower

/////////////////////////////////////////////- nikki giovanni

 

 

 

 

 

 

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How much good inside a day?

Depends how good you live ‘em.

/////////////////////////////////////////////////~Shel Silverstein

 

 

 

What are you waiting for?

 

Toni 2/1/11