“Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.”
~ Novala Takemoto
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
~ Carl Reiner
“Be like snow – cold, but beautiful.”
~ Lana Del Rey
All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate …
Snow … unceasing snow
~ Basho Matsuo
“Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, nor time unmake what poets know.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ashley Biniakewitz's car at 2 p.m. on March 14 on Grove Street in Beacon. She decided to stay home from work. (Photo by Joel Vetsch)
The Lee-Hartford children after playing and shoveling on Main Street at River Architects (Photo by Anita Peltonen)
A smart car? North Street, Cold Spring (Photo by Anita Peltonen)
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds... Not the official motto of the USPS, but everyone thinks so. A postman on Main Street in Cold Spring (Photo by Anita Peltonen)
Snowplowing in front of Hudson House (Photo by Anita Peltonen)
Towering banks of shoveled snow in front of Butterfield Library, on Morris Ave./Route 9D, Cold Spring (Photo by Anita Peltonen)
Please stop (Photo by Anita Peltonen)
Some had the good sense to stay inside. (Photo by Brian PJ Cronin)
Main Street, Beacon (Photo by Jeff Simms)
After purloining a suet block from a bird feeder, a snow-crusted squirrel enjoys a feast. (Photo by L.S. Armstrong)
Snowplowing in front of Hudson House (Photo by Anita Peltonen)
The Mora children of Cold Spring, on church hill with their snow gear (Photo by Anita Peltonen)
The Mora sisters (Photo by Anita Peltonen)
A semi tries to negotiate its load around the corner of Morris and Main in Cold Spring (Photo by Anita Peltonen)
Ivy Meeropol and her daughter, Dylan Ann, fresh from sledding on the church hill (Photo by Anita Peltonen)
Battling the snow in Cold Spring (Photo by Ross Corsair)
Main Street, Cold Spring (photo by Ross Corsair)
Main Street, Cold Spring (Photo by Ross Corsair)
Main Street in Cold Spring became a cross-country ski trail (Photo by Michael Turton)
A good reason to stay inside (Photo by Anita Peltonen)
Shoveling out in Cold Spring (Photo by Anita Peltonen)
Sports gear of all seasons got frosted (Photo by Anita Peltonen)
After digging the snow, there's the haul away. Alex Blanc at the end of a long of shoveling. (Photo by Anita Peltonen)