Snow Monday After

A post earlier this week showed images from a couple of weekend snowstorms. Those photos were taken from the comfort of our 5th floor apartment windows.

But to fully appreciate the beauty of a fresh snowfall, we walked outdoors through the recently completed Parc De Notre Renaissance Français. This pocket park is adjacent to the mill apartments and the newly-installed park walkway leads to Main Street in downtown Nashua.

La Dame de Notre Renaissance Française 

The park's centerpiece is the bronze sculpture, La Dame de Notre Renaissance Française also known by the shortened name, La Dame. The sculpture depicts a female mill worker with her schoolboy son who is showing her a book written in French. The mother has a spindle in her pocket to symbolize her work in the mills. 

For several hours, the view from the park to Clocktower Place mill apartments and along the Nashua River was a winter wonderland.

Cottonmill (top photo) and Lofts 34 (bottom photo) are also former mill buildings along the Nashua River that have been converted to apartment housing. The walkway shown above is part of the river walk and extends back to the park near Clocktower Place, our residence.

In downtown Nashua, Main Street was snow-free and had been cleared to the pavement; however, trees and sidewalks were still snow-covered.

By the time we were nearing the end of our walk, skies had nearly cleared which provided some wonderful reflections from buildings along the river front.

These snow-covered trees were near the main entrance of our apartment building. Overnight, a period of light snow revealed a light dusting early today, but without the same winter wonderland effect as earlier. However, this weekend another, possibly significant, snowfall is predicted for late Sunday into Monday. While some folks may be far less fond of snow, we always enjoy its quiet beauty — after all, it's winter in New England now.

• The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event (J.B. Priestley).
• The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. (E.E. Cummings)
• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. (Carl Reiner)
• If you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life but still the same amount of snow. (Anonymous)