~ Winter Is An Occupation ~

I have never been one for winter nor have I ever looked forward to it to be very honest. And here I live in probably the second coldest province in Canada. Yet we have no snow. We had a little last week and it came and went. At this time of the year everyone just forgets about how they look and well dress up according. It's amazing how we go from such extreme temperatures. Within the summer it can go right up into the 90's in F, while within the winter right about January it will get very nasty as far as temperatures go. I am not sure if anyone has experienced plugging in there car, or bundling up when on certain days during Winters peak it can get as cold as  - 30 in F or C.

So I would suppose right now as it's been very mild for this time in November it's been nice yet cloudy for the past week however before you know it - there shall be the winter that comes for this time of the year. I often wondered how my ancestors made it during this time of the year. Just imagine living within those times in which it was so cold that families would literally bundle up all within on bed. And as well, the furnaces coal and wood. It literally amazes me how they endured this time of the year back then. Yet they did it.

This time of the year, you will see people bundled up and yeah even a modern age long john does the job. The way I see it is that this month is nearing and end and thereafter come two month - then as in other years it can come to being spring so fast as the past years lately have been so different in comparison to anything that we have had that you just have to think spring regardless of how cold it is. This is that time where it's such a contrast to summer as within summer you have all sorts of people running, walking and now is using that command start and going from A to B.

I cant say I love all the changing of clothes that will be soon here it's why I always have loved spring and summer as things are much more simpler. Winter shall come and winter shall go we don’t get too much snow most years as it's a dry climate here but we do get a cold snap. However as soon as spring comes most all are elated.

I hope this winter comes and goes as fast. So right now I don't have false hopes. This is starting to be that time here were people come to be "destinational". That is they know where they are going and otherwise they just stay indoors. Yet the one thing is we never get those huge snow storms as much as more humid climates yet my fancy within all of the seasons has always been spring and summer.

So with the climate I just say let it come and lets get it over with. Yet you have to have a good frame of mind when it comes to what takes place here, I thought I would post a few quotes on winter, to those that live within warmer climates I do envy you. With no doubts as this morning I saw some pictures with palm trees and it's not fair, nope.

Some "chilly" quotes:

Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn.
- Marche Blumenberg

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do – or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.
- Stanley Crawford

Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.
- Mignon McLaughlin

 

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.
- Anonymous

Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they do when they stick together.
- Verna M. Kelly

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
- Willa Sibert Cather

In the winter I was with Nelson Piquet. He was talking about his capacity to race faster. He said that he was still learning new things all the time.
- Jean Alesi

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
- Victor Hugo

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.
- Andrew Wyeth

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.
- William Bradford

Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man’s ingratitude.
- William Shakespeare

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
- John Burroughs

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.
- Christina Rossetti

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.
- Will Rogers

And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
- Roy Bean

As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.
- Russ Carnahan

The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.
- Dave Barry

To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.
- W.J. Vogel

You can’t get too much winter in the winter.
- Robert Frost

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
- Andy Goldsworthy

Brew me a cup for a winter’s night.
For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I’ll toast our bright eyes,
my sweetheart fair.
- Minna Thomas Antrim

Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
- Sinclair Lewis

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
- Edith Sitwell

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.
- Harry Johnston

Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.
- Anonymous