Reflections: Winter

by Patrick Sills

As the warm, sun-filled days of summer give way to Autumn, the air becomes crisp and cool. Leaves begin to change color. For a brief time, a beautiful spectacle unfolds as a calliope of red and yellow cloaks the vast lands...read more

by Natalia Cramblett

Here is a glimpse of Russian winter as I remember it from my childhood. After long dreary autumn days drenched in rain and sleet you wake up one morning and rush to the window - the whole world has changed! Yesterday it...read more

by Sara A Broers

The frost reflects on the twigs and branches that sweep through the cool, brisk arctic air. The sun dogs dance along the horizon as the ice crystals continue to form through the western skies. Winter is truly a beauty al...read more

by MaggieMae

The Assault Of The Winter One bitter cold day I walked outside my house desperately wishing the world would show signs of spring. After I went outside, I paced around our property. The air was violently cold. My body sh...read more

by Donald Courtney

Midwest Winters: The winters in the Midwest are beautiful. Especially just after a new snow fall. Everything is so clean and white. The snow buildup is hanging over the tree branches and off the house roofs. It's piled ...read more

by Catherine Pymm

I must say, I find Winter a most depressing time of year. Yes, I know we have Chrsitmas, and the new year, but apart from that, I find there is little to look forward to. Everything dies, the weather grows colder and the ...read more

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by Karl Stephany

The Isolation Blues Solitude and isolation have taken on a whole new meaning to me in the last couple weeks. Up here in the high country of Colorado, miles from a town and a mile off the main road. I have come to know ...read more

by Heather Swearingin

I remember when I was young, I lived in Alaska. The winters were cold and brutal, and sometimes a matter of life and death. I lived with my mother and father and brother. When you have to rely on each other, you really...read more

by Michael Bettencourt

LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP Imagine this.... ....a palisade of trees on the verge of a pond, Frost's woods, "lovely, dark and deep." Just after sunset but before they fill up with night, when the air seethes cobalt with eno...read more

by Chris Custer

Snow Emotions change in the winter. It has nothing directly to do with the position of the Earth or with the amount of sunlight portions of the planet receive during this season, although emotions may also be affected b...read more

by E. Rae Fallesen

Sometimes in autumn you can smell the winter coming on a north wind on a chill day when you're just raking the leaves. You're standing there sweating, cold fingers rake-clasping when something burns the inside of your nost...read more

by Rhonda Valen

I enjoy winter. The snow, falling in the dark night, not making a sound. So quiet and yet peaceful. It is strange to stop and listen, really listen when the snow falls. It doesn't make a sound, and yet no one ever stops an...read more

by Kristy Dean

Winter is frosty mornings, fluffy slippers, long johns, thick sweatshirts, and hot coffee. It is gallons of home made soup and loaves of fresh baked bread with pounds of creamy butter. It is red noses, cold toes, and puddl...read more

by Jessica Sullivan-Thomas

Well, winter is here in all its grandeur. There is something about winter that I love. I am not a fan of cold, by any means, but I do love the winter and I think its because its beauty is much more subtle than the other se...read more

by Steve Erickson

A Winter to Forget Growing up in the great northwest, I remember a few interesting winters, but there were none that could possibly compare with this one, which I'm hoping, is almost over. First came the rain, then th...read more