“To-day the trees are white with snow,—I mean their stems and branches,—and
have the true wintry look on the storm side. Not till this has winter come to
the forest. It looks like the small frost-work in the path and on the windows
now, especially the oak woods at a distance, and you see better the form which
the branches take. That is a picture of winter…”—American
essayist and naturalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, journal entry, January
5, 1852, from Winter: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, edited by
Harrison Gray Otis Blake (1891)
Two years ago, I took the image accompanying this post in Saddle River County Park, here in Bergen County, NJ.
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