Blustery
It’s a blustery spring day. The rhubarb is up. The spring rituals have started: planting peas, first workday at the community garden, starting tomato seeds. The rhubarb looks so red and wrinkly. The leaves...
Category: seasons
Discovering ice
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” First sentence of One Hundred Years of Solitude,...
wicked cold
We didn’t have that much snow yesterday. Some of it fell as sleet or rain, and then turned to ice. Today we have high winds and lots of blowing snow. Drifts are forming. And...
Snowflakes
We’re having a real Maine winter. It’s beautiful and welcome. More snow in the forecast, and lots of cold. I am not oblivious to the political chaos going on in this country and around...
A Winter Adventure
We went cross-country skiing in Acadia yesterday. Sam forgot to put the poles in the car. I didn’t think I could ski without poles, but apparently I can. I stayed upright the whole time...
January
Those dots on the ice are resting seagulls. There’s sea smoke in the background. It was below zero this morning, again. I was able to take a walk in this cold. My face hurt,...
Ice along the trail
We’ve had some snow. But before the snow, there was ice. The trail we walked last week will be very treacherous now, with invisible ice under the snow. I’m glad we were able to...