Arriving at our cabin on a snowy afternoon...a breath of fresh air after leaving California's smog. Snow was too deep to attempt to take our rental car down the driveway, but each step down the hill, past heavily snow-laden trees, was its own reward.

Winter ~ There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. ~Ruth Stout