Quote of the Day (Verlyn Klinkenborg, on Wind and ‘Deep Cold’

“If deep cold made a sound, it would be the scissoring and gnashing of a skater’s blades against hard gray ice, or the screeching the snow sets up when you walk across it in the blue light of afternoon. The sound might be the stamping of feet at bus stops and train stations, or the way the almost perfect clarity of the audible world on an icy day is muted by scarves and mufflers pulled up over the face and around the ears. But the true sound of deep cold is the sound of the wind.”— American non-fiction author and newspaper editor Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Rural Life (2002)

Quote of the Day (Lizette Woodworth Reese, on April Wind and Rain)

“Straight from the east the wind blows sharp with rain,

That just now drove its wild ranks down the street,

And westward rushed into the sunset sweet.”— Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935), “April in Town,” from The Four Seasons: Poems, edited by J. D. McClatchy (2008)

Quote of the Day (Percy Bysshe Shelley, on Winter and Spring)

“If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?”-- English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), “Ode to the West Wind”

(Don’t mind all the recent late-March wind—which, contrary to rumor, has not been caused by this blog! Spring is now officially here. As Sheryl Crow might say, “Soak Up the Sun”)