My friend Katie and I enjoyed a very talkative and busy and encouraging and restful weekend in the small town of Purcellville, Virginia where she has lived for the past five years. We woke up Saturday morning to hike at Raven's Rock and delightfully discovered that the forest was covered in a beautifully thick ice coating that made even the brown branches glisten and shine. Never before have I felt so enveloped in a wonderfully majestic winter scene that could have come straight out of Narnia itself. Wow!