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Happy Holidays from Mountain Village School

We wanted to wish all of you a very happy holiday season spent with those you love the most. We look forward to seeing you and the children again on Monday, December 29th.
Winter Trees
by William Carlos Williams

All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.


Thanks for Reading
Ho ho ho! -Sam 

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