Cold Walks...

I'm glad we went for a walk yesterday when the temps were in the 30's...today I woke to 3 degree weather and it has not warmed up much...

To make a perfect winter day like this,
You must have a
clear, sparkling air,
With a sheen from the snow,
Little or no wind;
And the warmth must come directly from the sun.

It must not be a
thawing warmth.
The tension of nature must not be relaxed.

The earth
must be resonant of bare,
And you hear the lisping tinkle of chickadees
From time to time
And the unrelenting steel-cold scream of a jay,
Unmelted, That never flows into a song, A sort of wintry trumpet, screaming
cold;
Hard, tense, frozen music,
Like the winter sky itself;
In the
blue livery of winter's band.

Henry David Thoreau