Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The Day After

Like so many other things in life, snow is yin and yang, it is a study in opposition. It is cold and harsh and at the same time beautiful and fragile. Although cold, it magnifies light and draws you to it. It is a complete pain to shovel off the driveway and absolute joy to make a snowman with a grandson.

Steps to Nowhere

The snow on the back lawn drew someone to it and then something about the snow sent that someone back inside, retracing their own tracks. This picture beautifully depicts the opposition nature of snow.
If trees kept their leaves through the winter and were burdened by the weight of the snow on their leaves, it would doom them. Here is a stately old tree, which, though naked, bravely stands against the storm and the cold, refusing to be defeated, knowing, without doubt, that spring will come.
One of my favorite subjects, the Star Barn, looking "whiter" in the snow. I have no idea where the seagulls came from or what they were doing their. They had never been there before. They certainly had no fear of me!

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