February

February 20, 2015 by rness | Comments Off on February

With the heavy snowfall and bitterly cold temperatures we have been experiencing this month, there is something that doesn’t quite ring true about John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “February.” Suffice to say that the snow-plumed Angel of the North has Not dropped his icy spear. Until such time, we offer Whittier’s words as a gentle reminder that beneath the winter’s snow lie germs of summer flowers!