Welcoming the 'crisp brass shout' of winter

In Franconia, N.H. Cannon Mountain ski area is in distance.

“After the long

Melancholy of the fall,

One longs for the crisp

Brass shout of winter—

The blaze of firewood,

The window’s spill

Of parlor lamplight

Across the snow.’’

— From “New Hampshire,’’ by Howard Moss

Bright but frigid day in Hollis, N.H.