With this view from my patio just one week from the first day of spring I am not the greatest appreciator of winter right now but I have seen its beauty and felt its silence. On one special morning I did write this Haiku:

Touched by frozen rain
Natures winter skeletons
glisten in the sun.

Now this will have to do:

Footsteps of our dog
lead across the fallen snow.
Paths of necessity.