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Wishing you the very best this holiday season
This special time of year beckons us to reflect on many gifts and blessings. Support from you and other individuals, families, businesses, organizations, institutions and public agencies allows us to carry on WPC's mission in countless and tireless ways. So it is only fitting that we look back with gratitude and forward with hope and eagerness to help secure a rich natural legacy for present and future generations.
The Staff and Board of Directors of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy wish you and your loved ones Happy Holidays and a healthy, prosperous New Year!
Today's photo was taken at Bear Run on a December morning by WPC's Jack Rowley Jr.
Thoughts on and around snow:
Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder,
not the stormy torrent or eroding rain,
but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.
-- John Muir - American Naturalist and Conservationist (1838-1914)
There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow.
It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig,
is clad with radiance."
-- William Sharp -- Scottish Poet, (1855-1905)
When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,
We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago,
And etched on vacant places
Are half-forgotten faces
Of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.
--Ella Wheeler -Wilcox -- American poet and writer (1850-1919)
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer.
-- Clement Clarke Moore -- American Poet (1779-1863 )
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?
It came without ribbons. It came without tags.
It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
-- Dr. Seuss -- American children's book author and illustrator (1904 - 1991)
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