“Life is only a flicker of melted ice.”
  ~~Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.”
Will Rogers

"I never get tired of the blue sky." 
  ~~Vincent van Gogh

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
  ~~Thomas A. Edison

"A true friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure."
  ~~Unknown

The fire is dying now, my lamp is growing dim
The shades of night are lifting
The morning light steals across my windowpane
Where webs of snow are drifting
  ~~Gordon Lightfoot, "Song for a Winter's Night"

"The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. 
There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only."
  ~~Joseph Wood Krutch

I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.” 
― Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales

"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."
  ~~John Ruskin