14\u00a0 83%\u00a0 25%\u00a0 3mph\u00a0 WNW\u00a0 bar 29.60 steep rise\u00a0 windchill11\u00a0 Winter<\/p>\n
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Snow began in the early morning and it has kept on steady since then.\u00a0 The winter brown where grass had begun to peak through our first snow cover is gone, replaced with a carpet of white.\u00a0 Most of the boulders in our garden tiers have disappeared.\u00a0 It is quiet.<\/p>\n
From where I sit as I write this the magnolia, the grey dogwoods, the red and white oaks have changed from their summer green clad to a seasonally appropriate white.\u00a0 These days, the essence of what it means to live in northern latitudes, change the landscape from\u00a0the faded browns of late fall to a soft and fluffy world of unexpected joys.\u00a0 The bird feeders have small caps of snow.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It may be, at our house,\u00a0 a year without Christmas, but it is not a year without joy or holiness.\u00a0 Both have come today, the second day of winter.\u00a0\u00a0 Blessed be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
14\u00a0 83%\u00a0 25%\u00a0 3mph\u00a0 WNW\u00a0 bar 29.60 steep rise\u00a0 windchill11\u00a0 Winter \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Full Cold Moon Snow began in the early morning and it has kept on steady since then.\u00a0 The winter brown where grass had begun to peak through our first snow cover is gone, replaced with a carpet of white.\u00a0 Most of the … Continue reading A Snow Day<\/span>