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Snow is precipitation in the form of flakes of crystalline water ice that falls from clouds. Since snow is composed of small ice particles, it is a granular material. It has an open and therefore soft, white, and fluffy structure, unless subjected to external pressure. A snowflake is either a single ice crystal or an aggregation of ice crystals which falls through the Earth's atmosphere.  Snowflakes come in a variety of sizes and shapes. Complex shapes emerge as the flake moves through differing temperature and humidity regimes, such that individual snowflakes are nearly unique in structure. Snowflakes encapsulated in rime form balls known as graupel. Snowflakes appear white in color despite being made of clear ice. This is due to diffuse reflection of the whole spectrum of light by the small crystal facets. A snowflake consists of roughly water molecules, which are added to its core at different rates and in different patterns. As a result, it is extremely difficult to encounter two identical snowflakes. Initial attempts to find identical snowflakes by photographing thousands their images under a microscope from 1885 onward by Wilson Alwyn Bentley found the wide variety of snowflakes we know about today. The process of precipitating snow is called snowfall. Types that fall in the form of a ball due to melting and refreezing, rather than a flake, are known as hail, ice pellets or snow grains.

Autumn

Autumn Fires

by Robert Louis Stevenson

In the other gardens

And all up the vale

From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke  trail!
 Pleasant summer over

And all the summer flowers,

The red fire blazes,

The grey smoke towers.

Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!

Autumn Qoutation

 Autumn is the second sprign where every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
No spring nor
Summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumn face.
John Donne

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

William Cullen Bryant

Winter is the etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

Stanley Horowitz

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

Edwin Way Teale

  

 Autumn

The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry's cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.
The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I'll put a trinket on.
Emily Dickinson

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Summer

by John Clare

Come we to the summer, to the summer we will come,
For the woods are full of bluebells and the hedges full of bloom,
And the crow is on the oak a-building of her nest,
And love is burning diamonds in my true lover’s breast;
She sits beneath the whitethorn a-plaiting of her hair,
And I will to my true lover with a fond request repair;
I will look upon her face, I will in her beauty rest,
And lay my aching weariness upon her lovely breast.

The clock-a-clay is creeping on the open bloom of May,
The merry bee is trampling the pinky threads all day,
And the chaffinch it is brooding on its grey mossy nest
In the whitethorn bush where I will lean upon my lover’s breast;
I’ll lean upon her breast and I’ll whisper in her ear
That I cannot get a wink o’sleep for thinking of my dear;
I hunger at my meat and I daily fade away
Like the hedge rose that is broken in the heat of the day.

Sweet Summer

by Wayne Jarus

The boats adrift in the harbour
As thoughts in a calm mind
A liquid sun beaming today and forever
We hoard happiness a smile at a time

As thoughts in a calm mind
Finding respite in cool shade
A liquid sun beaming today and forever
Butterflies flutter in a golden haze

Finding respite in cool shade
In this pastel world of light and shadows
Butterflies flutter in a golden haze
And crickets sing in motionless meadows

Oh sweet summer stay and sleep
A liquid sun beaming today and forever
Lingering dreams and afternoons of heat
The boats adrift in the harbour.

Hot Summer Nights

by Mary Hamrick

It haunts me so
those summer nights
in dim lit homes
 where music flows
and tempers flare
and lullabies fill the air.
 I while away the hours
under the electric swell of light,
(pulse-scorched out).
 Bone-idle and coral pink,
this dry spell grills,
but Southern nights do fill me.
 Spider-blue legs peddle tales
as gossips-a-brewing
and roaming by my streets.
 Scuttling through like marsh rabbit,
neighbors wave their charmed hellos.
Feverish and swollen together,
 they inhale the blossoms,
riding high, and move through summer
as the lake declines.
 It haunts me so
those summer nights
in dim lit homes
 where music flows
and tempers flare
and lullabies fill the air.

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Summer Quotations

"Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You" in spats." Woody Allen

"Tears are the summer showers to the soul." Alfred Austin

"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams."  Hosea Ballou

"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you." Erma Bombeck

""Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January."  Hal Borland

"When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse." Lord Byron

"For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go." George Washington Cable

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." Albert Camus

"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." Anton Chekhov

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A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.  ~James Dent
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.  ~Bern Williams
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.  ~Gertrude Jekyll
 The summer night is like a perfection of thought.  ~Wallace Stevens
 In summer, the song sings itself.  ~William Carlos Williams
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.  ~Sam Keen
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.  ~John Lubbock
Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.  ~Henry James
No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer.
~James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848

More Season Quotes:  The Spirit of Gardening

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Snowflakes

So softy came the snowflakes down

That no one heard in all the town.

And right-side up they landed too,

As parachuting elves would do.

So when the morning came – surprise!

The world lay white before your eyes.

With cotton roof and hills a-blur

And avenues of rabbit fur

Quotations about winter

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. ~Stanley Crawford                                                                        

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. ~Bill Watterson

Every mile is two in winter. ~George Herbert

Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn. ~Marche Blumenberg

To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. ~W.J. Vogel

Winter came down to our home one night

Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,

And we, we were children once again. ~Bill Morgan, Jr.

The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination. ~Terri Guillemets

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. ~From the movie An Affair to Remember

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. ~Edith Sitwell

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. ~Author Unknown
One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they do when they stick together. Verna M. Kelly
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer~ Albert Camus

"Storm"
by Robert Pack

from Minding the Sun Copyright 1996 by Robert Pack; used with permission

Cascading snowflakes settle in the pines,

Sculpting each tree to fit your ghostly form

The surge of swirling wind defines

As if your human shape were what the storm

Sought to contrive, intending to express

Its consciousness of my white consciousness,

Sculpting each tree to fit your ghostly form.

Cascading snowflakes settle in the pines,

Swaying in unison beneath the snow,

Calling me to you with wild gesturings

Homeward into the howling woods, although

Thinking of your abiding spirit brings

Only a whiter absence to my mind,

Only whirled snow heaped up by whirled snow,

Only a fox whose den I cannot find.

С первым днем весны!

Spring has begun!

Spring Quotes:

• Spring has come when you can put your foot on three daisies. Proverb

• Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. Doug Larson

• Is it so small a thing

   To have enjoy'd the sun,

  To have lived light in the spring,

  To have loved,

  To have thought,

  To have done? Matthew Arnold

• Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come. James Thomson

• Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment. Ellis Peters

• In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. Mark Twain

• The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. Henry Van Dyke

• Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. Bishop Reginald Heber

• Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. Chinese Proverb

• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Yoko Ono

• Nothing is so beautiful as spring Gerard Manley Hopkins

• A little madness in the Spring

  Is wholesome even for the King. Emily Dickinson

• I thought that spring must last forevermore,

  For I was young and loved, and it was May. Vera Brittain

• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. Anne Bradstreet

Slush – слякоть, грязь

Perpetua – вечный, бесконечный

Wholesome – полезный, благотворный

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