The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed;
The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,
Whose charms were broken if revealed.
~Charlotte Bronte
nature
Standing on thin ice
“So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!” ~Robert Browning
Unpretentious
“… A lofty place he does not love,
But sits by choice, and well at ease,
In hedges and in little trees…
and there he sings
Till all the field with pleasure rings …”
~Henry Van Dyke
Dashing through the snow
“The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.” ~Margaret Bourke-White
Icicles
“Winter giveth … the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Looking out across the fields
White, blue and brown bands
Sprawling out across the view –
Smooth stripes of color.
Silence
“It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.” ~Sebastian Faulks
Leaves of a summer gone by
…Beauties of yesterdays
That once gave so much
Now in period of grays
Can still our heart touch
~Peter S. Quinn
Icy
… Hail and ice, and ice and hail,
Water frozen in the pail.
See the robins, brown and red,
They are waiting to be fed.
Poor dears, battling in the gale!
Hail and ice, and ice and hail.
~Katherine Mansfield
Hunkering down
… Then blow, Winds, blow!
And rave and shriek,
And snarl and snow
Till your breath grows weak–
While here in my room
I’m as snugly shut
As a glad little worm
In the heart of a nut!
~James Whitcomb Riley
walking on a country road 