Windblown Square Quilt Block and the January Wind



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"The January wind has a hundred voices.  It can scream, it can bellow, it can whisper, it can sing a lullaby.  It can roar through the leafless maples and shout down the mountainside, and it can murmur through the white pines below the ledges where the lichens make strange hieroglyphics.  It can whistle down a chimney and set a hearth fire dancing.  In the cold of the lonely night, it can rattle the sash and stay there, muttering of ice and snow banks and deep-frozen ponds."  Hal Borland

 

Winter-Time

Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,
A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;
Blinks but an hour or two; and then,
A blood-red orange, sets again.

Before the stars have left in the sky,

At morning in the dark I rise;

And shivering in my nakedness,
By the cold candle, bathe and dress.

Close by the jolly fire I sit

To warm my frozen bones a bit,
Or with a reindeer-sled, explore
The colder countries round the door.

When to go out, my nurse doth wrap

Me in my comforter and cap;
The cold wind burns my face, and blows
Its frosty pepper up my nose.

Black are my steps on silver sod;

Thick blows my frosty breath abroad;
And tree and house, and hill and lake,
Are frosted like a wedding-cake.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Has the January wind been blowing at your house like it's been doing at mine? 

You might also enjoy reading my previous blog post Streak of Lightning Quilt Block and a Song for Sunday.