'The mother of beauty'

-- Photo by Dronepicr

-- Photo by Dronepicr

"We do not long for endless summer. We know that death is the mother of beauty, and we know that only those who have stood beside the frozen water and shivered in the wind can take the full measure of sunlight and locust hum and fish moving in the deep eddied pools beneath the falls.''

-- The late Boston area mystery writer Robert B. Parker