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Re: [at-l] Winter in New England
What a wonderful piece of poetry!
Thanks for the word picture.
Lynn
We only got a couple inches of sleet and freezle toped with
>a dusting of fluffy snow. It was glorious this morning. Everytree
>coated with white. The ones still with leaf, bending slightly with the
>weight.
>
>You're right about the suddeness! Just weeks ago, I complained that
>the peepers et all were persisting too long. It was as if their
>song forbad the fall from coming. Suddenly the woods went neon,
>yellow, red and orange. And much to quickly the colors deepened
>till the woods took the color of tomatoe relish. And poof...today
>all was grey and tree-black and white. Even the sumac has lost it's
>red.
>
>But I love this season. Now I can enter the animals real world.
>Their lives are written in the snow. Foillow their paths and see where
>the deer pause and browse and sleep. The mouse still gathering seeds
>against the winter. Muskrats play. Their tracks prove they do.
>And the brush has lost it's density so your view is quadrupeled.
>And butter doesn't melt<<G>>. Winter has it's advantages. Kahley
>Oh..and about my plans for the weekend...they haven't changed. I'm
>still stuck at home doing a way overdue bathroom facelift <<sigh>>.
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