Show The Weeds In Winter The woods in winder have a peculiar charm and one who walks with nature fromspring to frost and rests loses a period of continuity which mars thc perfectness anti destroys the symmetry of the while In winter the woods are not dead on the contrary they are very much alive There on every sid life is abundant and often is obtrusive inanimate things appear animate Vegetation dormant and active is everywhere The possum curls himself him-self in the roomy cavern at the base of a hollow dead tree rabbits bound through the scrubby underbrush court ing no risk in the trees overhead the squirrels are never absent the birIs flit quietly through the clearing se ° king k-ing shelter in the hemlocks The snow I stretches up through the laurels to t lei le-i top of the hills and reflects a dazzling < I light from the highest plane to tht > i stream the springs are replenished ar J I gorged to overflowing they bublns down the slope endowed with a lift I i which would seem their own This is winter in the woods and sensibly prt I ent there is ever to a lover of ratue that indefinable companionship of nature na-ture a presence as personal as natu > is real both alike being spiritualif i spiritually discerned I i |