Illumination by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
Village scene for Thaliad (Phoenicia Publishing)



Everything feels  semi-proverbial this morning--the snow, the glass of water, the tea, the memories of the day before...

The world went to all the trouble to summon up a warm wind for some hours yesterday and melt the snow heaps. Evidently that was in order to make a more lovely snowfall today.