📚: The Last Viking, Stephen Bown: Quotes: Changes of seasons
I like this description of the changes of seasons, I think it is well balanced, providing just the right amount of color:
They watched their dogs die and other dogs be born, the experienced relief at the end of the long, dark winter and withnessed the stunning transformation of the land during the thaw into a startingly brilliant, intense but brief frenzy of life in high summer, with a profusion of flowers, animals and birds.