On Valentine's Eve

'Twas Valentine's Eve
and lovers, for loveds,
pulled cards, sweets, and flowers
from out of the cupboards

So Valentine's Day
would find all beloveds
enchanted and thrilled
with a visit from Cupid
     ~by Himself

You're welcome! It appears that, should we make it through tomorrow, St. Valentine has an even more wonderful present in store for those of us who have been trapped under an extended Polar Vortex. We get a warming trend right here in our own North Country. We may even break freezing in a week or so. Some of us will offer up a piece or two of chocolate as an offering that the warming trend holds through next October into November or so. No March or April blizzards this year, please! Let's let Mother Nature know we love her and hope she loves us back!

Let's let Mother Nature know we love her too!

Photo by J. Harrington

We are far from a "climate change" denier, but believe science would be well served by much better communications. It's really hard to reconcile a melting Arctic, disappearing glaciers and ice sheets and similar disasters with something like two weeks of well below "normal" temperatures, setting new records for low temperatures or extended cold periods or both. Those of us who have our hearts set on enjoying a better, more loving, tomorrow can do without excessive heat, cold, wet, dry or other weather abnormalities being described as simply "global warming," or "climate change."

God's World

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

O world, I cannot hold thee close enough! 

   Thy winds, thy wide grey skies! 

   Thy mists, that roll and rise! 

Thy woods, this autumn day, that ache and sag 

And all but cry with colour!   That gaunt crag 

To crush!   To lift the lean of that black bluff! 

World, World, I cannot get thee close enough! 

Long have I known a glory in it all, 

         But never knew I this;  

         Here such a passion is 

As stretcheth me apart,—Lord, I do fear 

Thou’st made the world too beautiful this year; 

My soul is all but out of me,—let fall 

No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call. 

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