let it be

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. — Rainer Maria RilkeI started feeling blue towards the end of last week, when it looked as though winter was coming to a premature end.This was particularly unfortunate because winter is my favourite season. I like its cold, its cloudless skies, its long evenings and the general sense that the world has slowed down and pulled a blanket over its head. I was not ready to see it go.Then, on Monday, hell froze over.Icy rain and gale-force winds battered anyone foolish enough to wander outside. Eva and I made it a very short distance down the road, just long enough for her to hurriedly take care of business, before beating a hasty retreat back to our cosy nest.I took the photo above from our bedroom window that night, when the storm was at its fiercest. It was actually taken in colour, but the world outside was so bleak that it might as well have been black and white.*The long weekend did not turn out to…