A new season
Winter
is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a
friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
~Edith Sitwell
This week is the start of winter. However I think winter has been with us for a few weeks now with our frosty mornings and very cold nights. I don't mind winter, I quite like snuggling under the soft blanket in the evening with my mug of hot chocolate and a good book/film. I quite like the hot soups and crusty bread that one tends to have on a very chilly night or rugging up to go for a walk. Winter is often seen as the least favourable season, but each season has its beauty and winter is just as good as any other season but for different reasons.
Winter tends to make you feel alive, invigorated when that chill hits your face . . . even though the garden can look a little sad, you know that the bulbs will burst into sunshine shortly . . . the sun often shines on a winters afternoon and it so nice to catch its rays.
We lived in the tropics for 14 years and the one thing I missed the most was the traditional four seasons. I can remember when we moved south in June of 2000 and my sons saw winter for the first time in their lives. My eldest just loved to look at the frost that turned the garden white and the magical crystals that would formed. My youngest stood in front of an open fire in amazement as he had never seen a fireplace.
I am looking forward to this winter . . . my jumpers are ready, my tights are all bought, my winter shoes have taken the place of the summer shoes, my winter skirts have all been checked and only yesterday we put the flannel sheets on the bed. I'm ready for winter.
However for all those on the other side of the world, you are about to enter summer . . . enjoy:)
Best of winter
Best of winter
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I love Winter, and Autumn is my very favourite time of year. We are just beginning our Summer and I already am finding it far too hot and sticky. Enjoy your cosy, snuggled up evenings x x
ReplyDeleteI don't like sticky either which is why I was so pleased to leave the tropics:) May your summer be nice:)
DeleteAll seasons have their joys. I don't really enjoy being freezing cold or boiling hot... I really do prefer the mid seasons most of all. There is a beauty to winter - frosts are nice to look at, but not so fun when it bites you and you feel like you just can't warm up enough. :P
ReplyDeleteWe put our flannel sheets on our beds a couple months ago - I was amazed that you only just put yours on!! Winter would be a whole lot nicer if we could heat our house - especially if we could have a fireplace. There is something wonderful about a crackling fire in the house, and watching the smoke drift lazily from the chimnies. :)
I would love to have a house with a fire place, the create a cosy feel to any room - I think its the glow that comes from a fire. You don't get that seem feeling with central heating!!
DeleteWe haven't needed flannel sheets up until know as our doona is very warm - but I like the feeling of flannel in winter.
Oh wonderful. I am looking forward to winter (I am probably weird, but summer is my least favorite season--I don't like hot weather). I hope it is enjoyable for you!
ReplyDeleteWe have very hot summers and I find they make me far more tired than they use to. Where as I tend to have more energy during the other 3 seasons!! I also do far more crafty things in winter as it is just too hot in some to focus on embroidery..etc.
DeleteI love the spring!
ReplyDeleteIn the winter I suffer from winter blues. This year I used a 'Daylight-lamp' for the first time. That was helpful. Yes, I loved the winter a little bit. Only when it snows and everyone is at home ;-)