A Field of Snow
It didn’t melt off for a month and then came fresh snow. Underneath is next season’s clover, chikory and hay but now it looks like Spring will never come. Snowed in for two weeks, getting a little panicky when I lost Internet and phone and felt cut off from the world. My grandparents wouldn’t have cared with kerosene lamps and wood heat and a root cellar along with 6′ drifts. They were so modern with a battery bank hooked to the windmill, a pump at the sink and a party line on the hand-cranked phone. There was a time I had my own battery bank and a generator to charge it and snowed in was normal.
How soft I’ve become since then!
Anon Haha said,
February 25, 2011 at 2:53 am
Here in Pennsylvania, we were covered in snow until white became normal. After a quick melt I saw bluebirds flashing their colors on Monday. Tuesday morning all was white and I was shovelling the driveway again. The next morning it got down to -13C (9F). And last night it rained and rained. Thunderstorms are forecast for this coming Monday.