Beautiful New England MID-WINTER ID-WINTER brings to our fortunate northern country an added beauty as real as that which comes with the first tender green. of Spring. Frost and snow and ice conceal the brown earth and withered grasses and cause the trees to put forth a new kind of fairy leafage. The streams glisten like polished steel, and the blue of the sky is a far, far-away blue of wonderful purity. Better, far better than all this, the invigorating air gives a leap and bound to the pulse, and such a quickening of every sensibility of life, that we are newly awakened to the beauty that surrounds And to the soul thus touched and rendered alive, Nature has a wondrous story to unfold. Fortunate the man whose duties or opportunities include an experience of a New England Mid-winter. |