Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.
The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.