Monday, February 17, 2014

Country Diary of a Lady: 02/17/2014

It has been snowing again, today.  At times, it feels like it has been snowing forever.  And at times, it seems as though the snow will never end.  That winter will just go on forever.
It has come to that point in the season, where I have begun to long for the changing of the seasons, the warmth and the wet of spring.  The days when you can smell the changes in the air, the sun warmed dirt, the smell of green things beginning to push their way up through the soil.
That is what we love about spring.  The sense of everything coming alive again.  Though up here, in the Northwoods, they tend to call it “mud season.”
But, that is a ways off.  Tonight I rejoiced in the 17 degrees we were above zero!  And the beauty, the pure and pristine glory that is a fresh fall of snow.  For it blankets the world, it bedecks the tree branches turning them into magical creatures.  Reminds me of Cinderella as her Fairy Godmother turns her ragged dress into a gorgeous ball gown.  There is nothing quite like a pine all gowned in white.

Tonight, as I sit quiet and comfortable in my little blue house, my mind is spinning in circles.  For I have been delving into promising material for my next book.  Russian Folk Tales!  Oh how interesting they are.  Good think I already have a country based off of Russian Culture within my world.  I must decide which tales to focus on though, for they are all so interesting and many of them have a darkness to them that would be very easy to turn into a novel, it provides enough details and good enough villains to set up truly convincing stories.  And that is what I seek, when I look.  And with that little teaser, I shall leave you.  Good night snowy world.  May you wake to the brilliance of sunshine on pristine snow!

No comments:

Post a Comment