I'm dreaming.....

...of a white winter,

just like the one I use to know......

(by Herbert F. Ecclesius)

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Historic photos - Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Historic photos - Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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And like the one we had three years ago....

...when La Pouyette was covered in snow

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But, apart from a few wonderful frosty mornings,

this winter here, so far, it's grey, grey, drizzling and very mild.
A weather like "neither fish nor meat" - boring!
Although, this is rather normal for our region,
we don't have really long and cold winters in the South-West of France,
I like to have some snow for a week or two, or even only for a few days
when everything is quiet and calm, the nature falls into a winter sleep
and the world seems to be so peaceful.

So, I keep dreaming.....

...of a white winter...

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"Out of the bosom of the Air,

Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,

Over the woodlands brown and bare,

Over the harvest-fields forsaken,

Silent, and soft, and slow

Descends the snow..."

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"Even as our cloudy fancies take

Suddenly shape in some divine expression,

Even as the troubled heart doth make

In the white countenance confession,

The troubled sky reveals

The grief it feels.."

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"This is the poem of the air,

Slowly in silent syllables recorded;

This is the secret of despair,

Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,

Now whispered and revealed

To wood and field."

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

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Snow at La Pouyette 2009

A bientôt

P.S. Oskar's broken leg is improving, but he still has to live partly in his prison cell,
Mr. B and me caught a flu/cold, my laptop caught a bug and crashed down 2 weeks ago,
the main computer slowed down enormously (the PC doctor is coming today),
the whole house seems to be a hospital ward :) :)
So far I was not able to have a proper look at all your wonderful blogs and writing comments,
it took/takes ages to download anything.
Hopefully I'll catch up with all of you very soon.

Photo credit:

With thanks to the photographer:

Karl Herrling - 1,3 and 5

doberman4ik - 2

Dieter Biskamp - 4

aniabeta - 10

Ute Bauernfeind -11

Raimund Kloock - 8

www.fotos.sc - 6,7,9