Every year about this time - January - when the wind is blowing and the snow is falling outside, I reach behind my chair for my favorite volume of Robert Frost’s poems and re-read “Mending Wall.” If the house is quiet and no one is close at hand, I read portions of it aloud. Try it sometime. Frost is to me the heart and soul of New England and, for that matter, much more. His philosophy is both sound and inspiring and so timely for our day. “Good fences make good neighbors.”

New seed catalogs fill my armchair table these days. In days past I helped to write so many of them and they were so much a part of my everyday life that I was seldom able to look at them with a detached point of view. Now as I turn the pages of these “dream books” as they are often described, I can understand why they are so called. Colorful pictures and vivid descriptions of new plants and bulbs and shrubs help me to imagine where I might plant some of them in my tiny garden. Most of all, though, the new catalogs offer a pleasant respite for the disturbing newspaper headlines of the day.

This is the cold time of year. Whether we call the warm South or the frozen North our home, we can expect the coldest days of the year - days which add zest and zip to living and mark the neap tide of the polar period. It is ever wondrous - this cycle of the seasons - and the Winter is as much a miracle as the other seasons. Aside from its craftsmanship in ice and snow, its tendency to draw hearts closer indoors,

Winter has numerable other pleasant aspects, too. If nothing more, it enables us to greet Spring with a greater thrill and sense of awe, and those in northern places especially are rewarded with a keener excitation as a sort of compensation for a long, patient wait. Winter, indeed, is a blessing, and no matter where we live we can appreciate it for what it offers us individually and as the time of rest for our cherished growing things, content in knowing that they, leafless or clad, need their sleep as much as we do our own nightly retiring and that the year’s morning cannot be far behind.

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