It's The Memories That Make It...Worth It All

 

It’s the thought of bloom-bathed meadows

It’s the memory of mist

Unfurling a purple mantle

Over morning’s dust-dew kissed

It’s the prospect of long picnics

Where leaf-lyrics lilt and sigh

As the poet and the dreamer

Traverse a blue, boundless sky

It’s the barefoot way of being

It’s the carefree flower fray

It’s the babble of brooks beaming

To an ocean far away

It’s the garden full of gladness

It’s the hum of honey bee

It’s the treasure of an hour

Gold, like slow-poured lemon tea

It’s the lazy, hazy landscape

Where life’s sweetest footsteps fall

It’s the murmur of spent summers

That makes winter worth it all

© Janet Martin

I have the commercial for Massel's Marine in New Hamburg 

to thank for this one:) 

They use the line 'this makes winter worth it all'