December's End. Forecast for Snow.
"Some people love waking to the sight of new snow. Fallen snow is fine, but I like the sight of it falling, fine as dust or so fat you can hear it land against the kitchen window. I like the tunnel of dry snow you drive through at night, the headlights blanking out a few yards ahead, and the feeling that you're driving into some abysmal vacuum. I like the ground-blizzards and the snow that slithers down the road ahead of you. What I like is the visual impairment snow brings with it, the way it obscures some things and defines others, like the wind." - ---Verlyn Klinkenborg from The Rural Life
I will take that image with me to the grave. It makes me feel so much better about the whole thing. PhotoShop has moved beyond just excommunicating the party-faithful Stalin dacha bashes and gone on to creating a peace we can live with.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, I will be so happy when Obama is Prez and Sarah goes on to the bigger and better things that I hope her 15 weeks of fame demonstrate are her destiny. Much like Al Gore's transformation from US politician to world ambassador of, among other things, all things green, I believe that she struck a chord among Americans with children with disabilities and I hope that she will be able to use that for the greater good in a way that is socially productive.
Interesting photo. Does first dude know about this?
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