'Snow Place Like Home

Snowed in at Grandma and Grandpas.... coloring, baking, fighting, pretending, cuddling, games, eating, playing "cars", making ramps, making cards for Grandma Elaine, looking at the blizzard through the windows, snuggling, taking pictures, more eating, playing "babies", staying warm and dry, cheering for the plow, then scooping, sledding, laughing, and having hot cocoa.

Thankful all are safe and warm and there were memories to make....

The Snow Man

-Wallace Stevens

One must have a mind of winter

to regard the frost and the boughs

of the pine trees crusted with snow

and have been cold a long time

to behold the junipers shagged with ice

The spruces rough in the distant glitter

of the December sun; and not to think

of any misery in the sound of the wind

in the sound of a few leaves

which is the sound of the land

full of the same wind

that is blowing in the same bare place
for the listener who listens in the snow

and nothing himself beholds

nothing that is not there and nothing that is-