Starting in October, temperatures in Lithuania drop and the weather stays pretty crisp until well into spring. However, that doesn’t mean colder months here are bleak.

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus
A deep snow upon the ground … We walked through the wood. The sun shone bright and clear. A deep stillness in the thickest part of the wood, undisturbed except by the occasional dropping of the snow from the holly boughs.
No other sound but that of the water, and the slender notes of a redbreast, which sang at intervals on the outskirts of the southern side of the wood. There, the bright green moss was bare at the roots of the trees, and the little birds were upon it …each tree taken singly as beautiful.






We stand by the door of the house. A small black cat bounds from under the rosebushes; the dogs bark joyfully. This is the beginning of every day.
