Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and ‘the dead months’ will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.~ William Sharp (writing as Fiona Macleod), Where the Forest Murmurs The freezing temperature takes my breath away as I step outside for a winter walk up into […]
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Wind in the Woods
How fortunate I am to be surrounded by pine woods on three sides of our Shenandoah Valley home. There is something restless and mysterious about the sound of wind in the pines—its soughing can be almost eerie, especially at night, with a full moon. In a heavy wind, the trees bend and sway, branches creaking […]