Our 1st Wonderful Snow of 2015!
Written by Pam on January 3, 2015
The first snow of 2015 and it was so long overdue! We created many games with the dogs but the one they seemed to enjoy the most was try and catch that flying snowball – Kiss, Koko & Sage managed to land a snowball. Ty loves the games too, although she truly only enjoys being close to one person -her best friend and show handler, our daughter! Ty’s second favorite enjoyment is to retrieve that favorite blue Jolly ball! Epokku came outside but would not climb down the stairs yet – I never force the issue nor will I carry her down the stairs, when she is ready to join the pack in a game, she will figure out the steps on her own and join us. (I had a hard enough time getting down the snowy stairs with my air cast! ) Enjoy the pics and the poem! :*)
The Snowfall Is So Silent
Miguel de Unamuno, 1864 – 1936
The snowfall is so silent,
so slow,
bit by bit, with delicacy
it settles down on the earth
and covers over the fields.
The silent snow comes down
white and weightless;
snowfall makes no noise,
falls as forgetting falls,
flake after flake.
It covers the fields gently
while frost attacks them
with its sudden flashes of white;
covers everything with its pure
and silent covering;
not one thing on the ground
anywhere escapes it.
And wherever it falls it stays,
content and gay,
for snow does not slip off
as rain does,
but it stays and sinks in.
The flakes are skyflowers,
pale lilies from the clouds,
that wither on earth.
They come down blossoming
but then so quickly
they are gone;
they bloom only on the peak,
above the mountains,
and make the earth feel heavier
when they die inside.
Snow, delicate snow,
that falls with such lightness
on the head,
on the feelings,
come and cover over the sadness
that lies always in my reason.