This morning I drove past the Sunrise River pools along county road 36. It looked very much like they were covered with skim ice. In fact, the smaller, shallower water bodies in the neighborhood all look iced in, but not thick enough to walk on. Any waterfowl still in the vicinity will be forced onto the larger, deeper water bodies until they, too, begin to ice over. Winter continues to edge its way into the North Country.
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| poinsettias on the piano
Photo by J. Harrington
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The poinsettias that spend the holiday season on top of the piano arrived today. well, actually, I bought them while out tending to other errands. We’ll dig out the lighting over the next few days and then it will be Thanksgiving. One week from today, Taylors Falls is having their Lighting Festival parade the day after Thanksgiving at 6 pm. If the weather cooperates, it should be fun to watch a 1 year old granddaughter watch the parade.
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| small ponds first ice ices first
Photo by J. Harrington
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We got to see the tail end of this morning’s lunar eclipse and added the date of the first of next year’s to the calendar (May 16). The other one is about this time in November. The Anishnaabe refer to this morning’s full moon as gashkadino-giizis(oog): freezing moon. That’s a timely fit will our growing ice cover so, despite the madness of politics, much is on track in our world.
Reedy striations don’t occlude the beneath—
earthy mash of leaves, flat pepper flakes, layered,tips protruding, tender-desolate above a mirror
surface, gently pressing on horse-mane, nest material,tickle-brush, fringe. Buff block-shapes further down,
ghost-bits of green-green, a lone leaf burned white.My thrown stone skitters on ice. The next, larger,
plunks through and for a moment I am a violatorbut then I see it opened a bubble cell, a city,
a lesion, a map—the way in cold and luminous.
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