From the essay “House-Warming” in Walden and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau:
“The snow had already covered the ground … and surrounded me suddenly with the scenery of winter. I withdrew yet farther into my shell, and endeavored to keep a bright fire both within my house and within my breast. My employment out of doors now was to collect the dead wood in the forest, bringing it in my hands or on my shoulders, or sometimes trailing a dead pine tree under each arm to my shed. An old forest fence which had seen its best days was a great haul for me….”
“At length the winter set in in good earnest … and the wind began to howl around the house as if it had not had permission to do so till then.”
The gallery below contains the last of three sets of photos I took in the days following a snowstorm in northern New York.
The previous sets in this series are here:
Winter Scenes: After the Storm (Set 2 of 3)
Winter Scenes: After the Storm (Set 1 of 3)
Enjoy the photos!
Bye for now……………….. 🙂
Wonderful quotation! And some mighty fine pictures of winter.
Thank you! There seems to be a quote for every season and reason in that book, I keep going back to it and will likely continue to … thank goodness Kindle apps let you search through books!