| Show Winter Special Gifts By FLORENCE BITTNER Trying to be reasonably optimistic during the cold long days keep reminding myself there really are things I enjoy about this season of the I talk myself into remembering the good things about winter to help me get through to that first I LIKE of There is the scent of cold wind blowing from a night-blue field of the smell of the air when is heavy with the new storm which will be here before and the rich odor of warmth when I come indoors with breath tight from There is the wet-wool smell of boys whose hold newly formed and the blazing pine logs in the fireplace when the dark and cold are out and I am WHENEVER I think of I think of my big chair in front of the a good my family around me and a storm full of sound and fury That is one of the things 1 enjoy about winter-being inside away from Winter has other sounds which I though they are quieter and less than the voice of I LIKE the crisp crunch of snow underfoot when 1 march briskly forth on a moonlit I like the whisper of bare branches as they chatter in a cold I like the sound of the It is a lost and lonesome yearning and it cries around the corner of the and loses its way in its blowing in from the salt flats and I like sound of water dripping from the gutters when the sun becomes bright enough to melt snow off the and I like the voices of the children as they prepare for their snow fort battles on our front IN when I think of I remember the white and the but there are colors in My favorite is the deep blue of the mountains and the white in sharp contrast where snow and pines meet I like the color of the sparkle of sun on new and I like the prisms in the icicles hanging from my Children add their own color to the winter landscape they scamper out after a fresh wrapped like Christmas packages in hats and boots and mittens and THE FLASH of a migrant bird's bright the pattern of leafless branches against a storm-gray mammoth snowflakes floating past the window are winter scenes I There are parts of winter I can't talk myself into and the worst are connected with Driving on slick roads and plowing through scraping the frost off windshields and waiting for the car's heater and defroster to become the problems connected coaxing a reluctant automobile to start on a winter I am because I have trouble getting myself started on winter but sympathy doesn't replace I AM afraid I am so I have never taken up but I can understand the love of winter developed by ski because there is nothing more lovely than a winter forest When 1 wake on a winter-morning to hear snowflakes crashing anew on the I don't really To be winter is usually more enjoyable in but it must be and can actually be All I have to do is remember how I felt when I was a child and that first snowfall coated the ground and I could get at the business of making a Then I know winter has its own |
