“There is a dusting of snow.” Our John said, as he brought me my coffee at 5.30 this morning. By 6 am I was out in the barn, feeding out. By 7.am I was standing in the yards, listening to the chomp of cows, feeling the calm, watching the light rise. Not a sun rise more of a gradual lightening of a heavy steel sky. A steaming of cold light.
There was just a dusting of snow frozen to the ground. The footsteps of the dogs and I, as we began our walk, were as loud as the world. The only sounds in the clear cold hush. Except for a bleating Mia. “Where’s mine? Where’s mine?”.
“Shh, Mia, we are listening.”
The birds woke and still there was no sun, only milky light. So they shuffled, quiet as we walked by. 
Just a dusting of snow. A tickle without a laugh. A nod from the corner of winters eye.
c
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106 responses to “A Dusting of Snow on the Farmy – morning.”
I remember the mornings, waiting for the snow to arrive and you just knew it had snowed through the night without looking out of the winter by the sound…or rather the muted sounds by the snow.
I know exactly what you mean, even lying in bed with your eyes shut you can feel when it has snowed!! c
What a beautiful photographs…. I loved them all dear Cecilia, Thank you, have a nice and enjoyable day, with my love, nia
Thank you Nia, c
You make the cold weather (which I have never enjoyed) a place I’d like to wake up to… Now that says ALOT for your writing!!
i am dreading the cold coming too, I fear it is still coming!! c
Brrrr, do rug up warm! I wish we get some snow but it’s not on the cards for us yet!
i love the snow, but no more for us for a while either.. c
Very poetic and I love the pictures!
Happy Holidays 🙂
Hope your holidays are revving up too! thank you.. c
Love your photos. We haven’t had our dusting yet! Just a few flurries a week or so ago. It will come – perhaps with a vengeance!
I feel the same Phyllis The calm before the storm!.. Not yet though, we are fine and clear here today.. c