Poet Wallace Stevens wrote: One must have a mind of winter/To regard the frost and the boughs/Of the pine-trees crusted with snow.
In northern Vermont — thus far — the winter has been cold and dark and ice, scant on snow. When the sun is out, we lift our faces, as if our bare cheeks can gather the light like June’s strawberries in our hands.
The mind of winter is the Vermonter’s mind, for sure, for sure — slipping away in the swimming and gardening season, returning in late fall.
Each of us in my house is sunk into work and school in ways that seem particularly pleasant — at this time. Keep the house warm, the cats and kids fed, and walk under the stars at night.
Barr Hill, Greensboro, Vermont
Stony Soil Vermont 
Lovely writing – “as if our bare cheeks can gather the light like June’s strawberries in our hands“
(And I see Barr Hill in this photo credit, so perhaps I was right about yesterday’s?)
Definitely Barr Hill….. one of our favorite places, even after all these years.
We feel the same way about it, also even after all these years ♥️