"I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." - Rainer Maria Rilke

Over the past couple days, the state of Tennessee has been declared a State of Emergency.  We have ice everywhere, and while it makes moving around difficult, it is gorgeous.  Achingly so, at times.  My husband convinced me to go with him on a photo expedition of sorts yesterday (we are photographers, yes), and the photos you see here are some I took in my moments of bravery.  Having grown up in the North, one might think - and, rightfully so - that I would find the wintertime here very mild; but, I don't.  I acclimated to the area very quickly, and can be seen wearing jackets in the 50's.  Yes, I have come to accept that I am "that" woman...