Winter's Blanket

A lovely snowflake floats through the winter sky, slowly falling, spiralling downward to the dark, icy earth below. One solitary flake followed by another, each unique, flawless in design. One by one they fall to the ground, merging together, becoming a crystaline blanket of white over the dormant earth, like pristine, white sheets covering forgotten relics of the past in a slumbering old mansion. Until spring arrives the earth sleeps.