First Decent Snowfall of the Year

This is a photograph - taken January 1, 2004 - of the cabin where I lived in Wild Basin.

Melody is standing in the snow in front of the cabin.

I have since moved to another location two miles away.

We finally received, what I consider, our first really decent snowfall this winter.  Although, I have yet to venture outside, it's up to Diana's stomach when she went out a little before 5 a.m. this morning.

I love quotes and one-liners; and since Thoreau's writings have had a major influence on my life-style, I would like to share the following verse by him . . .

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles

    through the deepest snow to keep an appointment

        with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch,

            or an old acquaintance among the pines.

                                        - Henry David Thoreau