Snow

Snow Branches
Originally uploaded by Zanalee

The quality of silence when it snows deep in the forest is surreal. When all you can hear is your own breath and the snow flakes landing on branches, it makes me so still, it's as if I can hear more than normal. The movement of snow is so peaceful, it makes me still inside. It also makes me laugh and smile because snowflakes dance on air. They take so many different paths from the sky to the earth, but always, they come down.

I haven't been in the forest in the winter for a years. The last time was at a Bed and Breakfast in February at a place in Hyde Park. We stayed in a room on the top floor that had a walk out porch facing the back of the house which sits in the woods. We sat out on the porch and looked at all the trees covered in snow and it just made a part of me sigh that never gets to sigh, never even gets to unfold most of the time. I could feel the forest inside me. There was nothing else to do, nothing else I wanted but to share it.