The Garden in Winter

"Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius."
- Pietro Aretino

"When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves --
Welcome wool sweaters."
- B. Cybrill

"'Hear! Hear!' screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, 'winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.'"
- Henry David Thoreau