Speaking Volumes

I'm a three season kind of woman; spring, summer, fall. I bask in the sun and warm weather and shiver in  the cold. I could never bond with Princess Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall of Howdy Doody fame. The winter months are not for me! I try not to think about the cold season coming but start complaining about it around late August. You have to drag me kicking and screaming from October into November. I'm even tempted to tear the pages for December, January and February from my calendars. For now, things aren't too bad but they're getting there. I refuse to don my winter coat and gloves, even though the temperatures have been dipping into the 30's this past week. I hate to give into the cold even though I'm already freezing. For the past month I've enjoyed the view of Tuttle's fields when I leave work. The leaves on his trees have been brilliantly red and orange but now are brown and on the ground. They haven't lost all their leaves but when they do I'll look not. I won't be able to see them anyway as the dark and dreary is creeping up on me like a thief, stealing the light of day. I get up in the dark and go home in the dark. I even had to put my headlights on at 4:15 today. The clocks are changed; fall back they say. Gain an hour, lose more daylight! The story goes "You can't fool Mother Nature" and in this case, they're right. Winter will win.

So what's a warm weather Molly like me going to do. Keep the wood stove burning, get out the heavy blankets, put on the fuzzy slippers, brew a cup of hot tea or a hot toddy and snuggle into my chair with a good book and wait for spring. Just don't offer me any of these to read....Brrr!

Snow In August by Pete Hamill
Snow Falling on the Cedars by David Guterson
Icebound by Dean Koontz
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
Alaska James Michener
Winter Prey by John Sandford
Silent Snow by Steve Thayer
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Blizzard by George Stone
Winter Study by Nevada Barr
Iced by Carol Higgins Clark
Dana Stabenow mysteries

or any of the myriad of other books that feature cold, cruel, winter weather!
Have a favorite winter tale. Feel free to share.