"Winter lies long in country towns," she writes.
Giant Winter lies over Wilsey Down, "the snow flossing his blue coat and his buckles/Drifting his lip and his eye".
Lines such as "Winter lies in the arms of spring, as a mother carries her child, and never knows, how wild the wind blows" could easily have been penned by either.
The long winter lies ahead of us, and I can imagine a gardener spending many pleasant hours in the darkness to come cross-referencing "Christopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers" with two superb companion volumes.
Right now, as winter lies in a deep, grey lull, months before kohlrabi, beets, mustard, kale and daikon radishes start showing up in the Greenmarkets, the sprouts of these vegetables are already being harvested.
In areas with mild winters, lay the mulch as soon as you are done planting.
"It's not normally like this!" the guide joked... Gunnálvur explained how he would stalk these slopes during the islands' long, dark, numbing winters; lying in wait in the snow for hours for an unlucky hare to come out foraging, before picking it off with his rifle and taking it home for dinner, like a culinary cross between Andy McNab and Ray Mears.
This caused a budget crunch the same year, which prompted the Institute to close over winter break, lay off 250 MIT employees, and implement salary freezes.
— Craig Reichert found his son's body on a winter morning, lying on the floor as if he were napping with his great-uncle's pistol under his knee.
