Tag: snow
The plan is no back-up plan
Posted February 3rd, 2010
The weather report for Saturday, our wedding day, is ominous. It snowed steadily yesterday afternoon, a sifting of silver against the pewter sky. Before I went to bed I peered out the sidelights of the front door. All was white, all was soft in the bright lamplight. The air was already mild before breakfast as…
Christmas 2009
Posted December 27th, 2009
As I sat at my desk, gray dawn to gray twilight, the snow fell and swirled as sooty juncos swarmed the birdseed dumped on a protected table top. Barely inside the window that frames my view into the woods, I could see Garden Froggy, golden eyes bulging, disappearing into a drift like a mastodon sinking…
