Nature's Popsicle

Right now it is just rainy and cold outside...which is normal for January around here. But on occasions south Texas actually has some frozen stuff...I think people up north call it ice. Here it means there is a really good reason to stay home because people don't know how to drive...even on a good day. So light the fire, perk up a hot cup of coffee, grab a good book...and don't forget the blankets.

"Hear! Hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, 

where I had heard a tittering for some time, 

"winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, 

if you know where to look for it." ~Henry David Thoreau