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Now that Winter\u2019s frost allows us a spell of firm footing on frozen earth, the evenings sometimes call us abroad \u2014 to walk along the fields or follow old paths of farm-lanes when the world is lit by star-shine and moonlight silvers our steps. Then indeed the farmlands are beautiful, the groves and woodlands darkly handsome as they settle against the night-sky, the resting fields so still one could believe all was wholly deserted terrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it seemed this evening, when with James and the children from the house across the lane, we, taking our time in the delight of the hour walked along the intervening fields to Rob\u2019s. How still the night was, without even the sigh of a wandering wind to disturb its serenity, how altogether hushed and lovely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1850 sketch of Charlottetown in Winter Prince Edward Island<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not even an owl abroad\u201d we chuckled, following the others through the shadows of a woodsy place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf it were daylight\u201d Mack commented \u201cits surprising the things we would see \u2014 ravens and squirrels. And maybe a partridge or rabbit.\u201d He laughed at a memory. \u201cRabbits always startle me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sky toward its eastern boundary reflected the bright lights of the city. And here and there in mirroring brightness above them, these of the farmsteads about. On this and more distant roads, in momentary Willo-wisps of brightness, machines moved, as were we, along the fairy aisles of the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis\u201d James offered, as by way of a gap in a hedgerow we entered another field \u201cis part of our seeds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSeeds?\u201d Mack echoed. \u201cOh, yes, I know\u2026 first hay. The seed was sowed last spring along with the grain.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1894 Farm buildings, fields and fences in winter, Prince Edward Island<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019m thinking the flock of sheep\u2019s nibbling over it, isn\u2019t doing it much good!\u201d James said. It would be as well too if we\u2019d get snow, to cover it \u2014 a better crop we\u2019d get instead of the freezing and thawing weather we have been getting of late.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe never know\u201d Mack commented. \u201cWe just may get our best hay here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt depends on the year\u201d we agreed. \u201cIf it’s a year for clover there\u2019ll be an abundance of it everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wish\u201d Granddaughter observed with a chuckle \u201cwe could catch the clover scent right now!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGirls are forever wishing, aren\u2019t they?\u201d Mack offered teasingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t mind it either\u201d James said, tones a bit wistful, \u201cat least I could do with the Spring.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But fragrance [sic] of Fall went with us scent of resting fields, of sere stubble [sic] and bracken. And intermingling\u2026 it came to mind, instead of the salt of shore fields the aromatic tang of the spruces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The farming? How busy the farmers\u2019 days continue to be! How full of hope to farm-folk, we reflect, as we look into the new year, now reaching before us away. This will be the best winter\u2026 the best Spring\u2026 the best year of all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                                                    – Ellen\u2019s Diary, January 6th, 1958.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: islandnewspaper.ca\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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