In the Bleak Midwinter

     We have been having unusually cold weather here in Western North Carolina this winter. When it is snow it looks so pretty! But our snow is long gone and what we have instead is ICE. The words that keep running through my head this week are those penned by Christina Rosetti and first published in 1872. Her poem, set to music by Gustav Holst in 1906, is the Christmas carol we know as "In the Bleak Midwinter."
        In the bleak mid-winter
        Frosty wind made moan;
        Earth stood hard as iron,
       Water like a stone.
      I ventured out with my camera last weekend with the temperature at 16 degrees. And took these pictures in Pisgah Forest (Looking Glass Falls) of this "water like a stone."