It is between 4:30 and 5 pm. Just ten days after the winter solstice the sun has set but it is still light. The sun was bright today and melted a lot of the snow. Now as evening is coming on the cold is rising fast. I am walking Rocinante down a lane lined with white pines.
It has been an eventful Christmas season. Altisdora graduated from MU. Cardenio visited from Tempe and we have just returned from a Christmas trip to Barataria to see family.
It is good to be back home. I realize now why I had grown not to like winter. There was not enough snow. This year with several nice snowstorms passing through it is like the winters that I remember. White and cold. When the weather clears the air is piercingly clean.
I would like to leave you with a link to my favorite Robert Frost poem. I wish everyone a Happy New Year.
New Year’s Eve Through MS Eyes
5 years ago
