TheBanyanTree: Winter Wonderland

[Margaret R. Kramer]

I’ve felt out of sync all winter, although I’ve tried to ignore it.  We’ve
had unseasonably warm and snowless weather for a long time.  Then it got
very cold, but we didn’t have the snow to go with it.  Bitterly cold and
brown ground don’t seem to go together somehow.  So I’ve gone to work and
the gym and I do my usual chores with something weird hovering in the
background.  We weren’t having a “normal” winter.

But then an Alberta clipper moved in yesterday gathering strength and
confidence as it expanded over Minnesota and it began to dump snow on us at
a rate of an inch an hour.

It took me over an hour to get home from work last night.  I got use my back
roads way home for the first time from my new place of employment and it
worked out well.  I arrived at home with cherry red cheeks and a big smile.
It was a “normal” winter again!

The dogs galloped out into the backyard.  They relished the cool snowflakes
gathering into piles on their backs.

I made a cup of coffee, turned on the fireplace, and cozied up to the news,
watching in amazement at the parking lot state of our freeways as people
tried to make their way home from work in the snow storm.  That’s why I take
the back roads – they’re slow, but at least I can keep moving.

Ray and I skipped out of my company’s holiday party last night, because it
was 40 miles to our south, and we weren’t going anywhere in this storm.  We
stretched out on the couch and I got some serious reading done while Ray
slept (he’s recovering from bronchitis).

The storm is racing away from us and the sun is taking over the sky this
morning.  The wind is howling and the temps are falling and all the snow is
piled into high drifts on the driveway and the street.  We’ll get to fire up
the snowblower and use those shovels for the first time this winter.

We’ll be able to wear boots and warm coats.  Our cars will slip and slide on
the streets and we’ll feel the pulsing of our ABS brakes.  Yes, life is back
to normal.

Margaret R. Kramer
margaretkramer at comcast.net

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
--Aristotle