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People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare read more
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
 On a lone winter evening, when the frost
 Has wrought a silence.  
 On a lone winter evening, when the frost
 Has wrought a silence. 
 Look! the massy trunks
 Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray,
  Nodding and tinkling in read more 
 Look! the massy trunks
 Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray,
  Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven,
   Is studded with its trembling water-drops,
    That glimmer with an amethystine light. 
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
 And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters 
of that country know them to read more 
 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. . . . For summer being done, all things 
stand upon them with a weather-beaten face, and the whole 
country, full of woods and thickets, represented a wild and 
savage hue. 
 Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl
 Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright
  From the ice roof read more 
 Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl
 Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright
  From the ice roof depending; and beneath,
   Grottoes and temples with their crystal spires
    And gleaming columns radiant in the sun. 
Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, read more
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.
Every mile is two in winter.
Every mile is two in winter.
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for read more
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.