The tree will come down this weekend, and the lights and the gnomes and the candles. We'll sweep away the needles and the last lingering scraps of wrapping paper, the stray ornament hooks. We'll look out from our clean house, down the long barrel of winter, with no big holidays or celebrations on the horizon. It's tempting, this time of year to go into a funk, imagining that the cold days might, this time, just hang around straight through to another winter. I've got a big stack of books ready to read by the fire, plus a stack writing projects, a whole list of goals, habits, and resolutions. I've got nature-study plans (bark! lichens! tracks!) and I'm thinking about improving my cross-country ski skills (if it actually snows) and maybe going on an overnight ski trip. Like a lot of things in life, winter is much more unpleasant in the anticipation than in the actuality, so I'm trying to look forward the positive side of it, focus on the things I enjoy, and not worry about the cold and the dark and the clouds.
What are you looking forward to this winter?
Snow...if it ever gets here. And when it does there will be snowshoeing and tobogganing, and lots of fun in the woods.
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend Andrea.
What little snow we had submlimated away yesterday. Hope to get out snowshoeing at some point this winter!
DeleteYou are so right that winter is much worse in its anticipation. We are going to have a nature study day one day each week this year. We are going to find some silver birch bark to write on this week. Looking forward to reading your nature posts, assuming you share your finds, I do enjoy reading them.
ReplyDeleteA nature study day each week sounds like a great way to appreciate winter. So many interesting things to be seen out there this time of year!
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