Beauty in Winter

"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them." -David Hume

            Some people get very sad when long summer days give way to the short, cold days of winter. Nature loses most of it's color as everything seems to die. Grass turns brown, Trees lose their leaves, and the wind chills you to the bone.

But there is beauty in winter. Beauty in the dormant trees, beauty in the gray skies, beauty in the freezing water.

Each season's photos have the ability to evoke a vastly different range of emotions. Winter pictures, to me, present a much more raw group of emotions. A picture of a lonely tree in a barren landscape can make you sad or contemplative. That same tree in the spring time packed full of new leaves surrounded by a field full of growing crops can give you a warm feeling of hope.

 

 I don't think I would appreciate a warm spring day nearly as much if I didn't have to make it though a long, cold winter. The beauty of winter is a much more subtle thing than the beauty of the other seasons. It is not as easy to find. But it's there if you're willing to look for it.

Just because it's cold and windy outside doesn't mean we have to be unhappy. If just means we have to try a little harder to find the things that make us happy.