In my last post, I complained about the season and what seemed like everlasting cold and snow. I hope you didn’t get me wrong; I love winter. I love snowflakes and warm fires and hot chocolate. I don’t even mind shoveling the snow for my family, but sometimes all this cold gets old. Sometimes I think of spring and summer and long to see it. It has snowed since my last post, and the accumulation has piled up to two or three feet now. I don’t mind much. I’m safe indoors with a hot cup of coffee and a warm fire. I don’t have to mind. I imagine this is a whole other story for the local animals who are awaiting spring to wake up the sun. I’m sure that they don’t think of the winter as a cozy, warm time. All they know are cold, frozen lives during this white season. I love this quote from Richard Adams, the author of the famous novel Watership Down: Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. If I think about it, that is exactly what I like about winter. The proof against it. I don’t like the bitter cold. I don’t like the hard ice. I don’t like the lack of outside life. I only like my cozy, warm, sheltered life.
Animals have it differently. They can’t walk into a warm house for a bit of comfort. They can’t sit next to a cozy fire. They are stuck in the frozen, icy snow until Spring brings the warmth.
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EBA
2/18/2017 05:47:19 am
Great quote and insight. Of course there are many things I like about winter but the relief from it is my favorite, come on Spring!
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Kateryna Cuddeback
2/18/2017 12:11:29 pm
I've been having to think about this. The animals I see the most are the squirrels and the birds hanging around our feeder. I put out the feeder because I felt they must need some help, with their food under piles of snow. But they don't look unhappy at all, gathered around the feeder, fluffed up feathers and fur. Maybe they get their "respites" too, like we do. I wonder at what point they start longing for spring....
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