Winter is the most honest of seasons. It can be beautiful and brutal in equal measures. If you accept it for what it is, it becomes your friend, your lover even. But if you insist that it playact, be anything other than what it is, you will be bitterly, brutally thwarted. Because, amid all its icy beauty, Winter never fails to tell the truth.
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My favorite time of year! ❄️
Mine too.
Beautiful pic’s but they make me cold just looking at them. Don’t like winter.
I read the first quote and thought, “Mitch, you’ve just described God.”
Awesome pictures. So many of them reminded me of winters in Northern Michigan. (Our first two winters there were the two harshest of the century.)
Hadn’t thought of it that way, but I agree, Annie. Re. Northern Michigan: Wow, you certainly had a baptism by fire, or rather frost!
I used to relish winter, but I got over it. (In spite of my seemly poem about winter earlier this month.)
;>)
Superb pics
Profoundly beautiful images, but I’ve become a desert rat. I don’t miss the cold, ice and snow.
Winter is truly one of my favorite seasons.
That’s so true and only about 10 years ago I discovered the magical beauty of winter and the often hidden treasures for the superficial eye. Winter holds it all. Great photos, Mitch!
Thanks, Erika!
Winter can be magical if we just go with it and seek the wonder in it. Beautiful photos!
Thanks, Nancy. I do enjoy curating gallery posts (and throwing of few of my own in when I’ve got something that fits).
And this goes with my post about how winter is so SAD. Did you post the squirrel in tribute to National Squirrel Day?
No, I had no idea it was, Pam (cosmic coincidence?).
It’s like you are cosmically aware of significant events without being aware, Mitch!
;>)
Wonderful pictures. I would love to visit Chicago in winter, with some warm clothes of course. I think Bridport is the closest to where i live in those pictures. We have only had frost, iced up cars and frozen bird baths so far this winter.
It’s been light for us, too…so far (cue Game of Thrones music).
What beautiful photos!
I love winter in the Canadian Rockies. The most spectacular season of the year, with lots of fun activities.
Great pics – especially the one with the open car door!
Winter can get a little cold in Canada. Pictures are lovely. Reality is a little less pleasant 😉 Like the idea of honest…honesty.
That’s why there’s indoor heating, cups of cocoa, and big picture windows! ;>)
Beautiful images. I am a winter person, even though our winters are nothing like this 🙂
I lived in Colorado for several years and fell in love with winter. Then I moved home to North Texas. Winters here are different to say the least. This year has been the strangest year weather-wise. We have a rollercoaster of temps – 75 for 2 or 3 days and below freezing for 2 or 3 days. The farm doesn’t know what to do!
Beautiful pictures! Love everything about the post😊
Thank you.
can you add verse 11 to that chapter
how many does job 12 has
verses 6-13 is the mention
I had been pondering this exact sentiment the other day while photographing bits of winter interest. Some think this season is blah white but upon closer introspection, it is actually quite lovely and makes up in texture, shade and shadows for what it lacks in color. And as you say, it is a very honest season. 🙂 Thank you for sharing the intriguing photos!
My pleasure!
Each season has its own beauty. When the trees lose their leaves, you can appreciate the beauty of the bare limbs.
Such stark beauty in these pictures
Read this several times over! If you accept… “it becomes your friend, your lover even.” Good stuff🙌🏼❄️
Thanks!
Beautiful photos, I especially like the cardinal. Here in Florida Winter means that our few icy mornings kick off the sprinklers on the strawberry fields. They are ready for harvest and the subsequent icy coating protects them from temps below 32. The famers say it makes the berries a little sweeter too. Have a blessed winter weekend Mitch!
Sounds counterintuitive, Pete, but then I don’t grow strawberries in Florida. You too, btw!
No I don’t grow them either but it always seemed there must be a biblical truth rolling around in there somewhere.
Indubitably!
Beautiful photographs, and I love the quote from Lewis Carroll.
Winter makes my heart so happy!! Love this! Thank you!
I love the George R.R. Martin quote. I’m grateful to have some “winter” friends. 🙂
Really nice pictures! Thanks for the post.
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I referenced this post on my blog if that’s ok Mitch…I was inspired a different direction. But winter here is really cold right now.
Of course it’s OK, Gary. And, yes, cold is cold, and it’s really cold right now!
Warmed up 35 degrees here but still below freezing…I hear you are really getting it for as far south as you are. Even the camera has been protesting lately.
We’re definitely below average for this time of year, below freezing most days, but surprisingly little snow so far.
You’ve made me miss a snow covered winter all the more than usual. These pictures are fantastic!
Glad you enjoyed the gallery, GP!
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