~
“Endurance:
It is the spirit which can bear things,
not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope.
It is the quality which keeps a man on his feet
with his face to the wind.
It is the virtue which can transmute the hardest trial
into glory because beyond the pain it sees the goal.”
.
Anonymous
~
~
Photos by Woodland Gnome 2015
Forest Garden 
A purple snowflake! 😉