The Blizzard of Ought Nine

Good dogs love blizzards.

Harry is a blizzard dog. Two feet of drifted snow is marshmallow pie to him. His big paws leap over the top crust, his muscular body and thick fur lets him land strong and he leaps again. When the wild wind is howling Harry finds himself the lee of a holly or juniper bush and weathers the blow. He is always willing to do guard duty, and when the blizzard is over, he is ecstatic to be invited inside, where luckier dogs take refuge in a storm.

In a blizzard a stack of dry firewood is worth a kingdom.

The start of a blizzard is always with tiny snowflakes, the smaller the snowflake the deeper and longer the blizzard is going to be.

A 1738 Cognac was distilled to be sipped during a blizzard. Other blizzard foods include beef Burgundy, brioche, beets, vodka, blintzes, chocolate and oysters.

What lilacs look like in a December storm.

Mr. Whistler and Mr. Weber join for a study in black and white.

Morning after.

Out in the snow thinking poetic thoughts. . The Algonquin tribes believed that blizzards are concocted by the gods to slow the minds of the Algonquins down from a maddening pace and to reacquaint their spirit with the simplest fact of life: We may canoe in a sea of serenity but we are always at the mercy of the storm.