Nightfall

After walking by night several times, I now walk by day, but I am not aware of any crowning advantage in it. - Thoreau

night falls like a shoe

cold tightening its laces

what is day to do?

Author's Note

“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.” - Thoreau

Reviews

[Poetic Beauty]

The fall of night in winter come quickly and it wraps its cold fingers around the air. I love the way you describe this.

[Pete]

we've been having some beautiful sunsets - red, purple, orange, yellow glows.

[Poetic Beauty]

We have had beautiful sunsets here as well

[Vol]

Pete,
I know exactly what... Stay warm in bed with some coffee and watch TV. We did not fight to the top of the food chain to still deal with such inconveniences...
Vol

[Pete]

lol. with age comes wisdom. let the young venture out to seek their cold fortunes.