We live in a beautiful part of the world. If it had stonewalls, an ocean (specifically, the northern Atlantic), and were more blue than purple, it would be close to ideal. This morning’s drive to pick up this week’s Community Supported Agriculture share, in the midst of the season’s first snow showers, was absolutely delightful, and I don’t like winter. I had enough sense to take my good camera. Enjoy some of the results.
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| always scenic red barn
Photo by J. Harrington
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| whitetail doe in snow
Photo by J. Harrington
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| ridges near the St. Croix river
Photo by J. Harrington
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| three sandhill cranes in snow
Photo by J. Harrington
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The snow is all gone. Colder than normal temperatures remain for now. If you’re familiar with the debate about not confusing correlation with causation, you can decide for yourself whether our calling out the prospect of snow earlier this week was coincidence (correlation) or it triggered the weather gods (causation). I’m glad we got to enjoy the beauty and equally glad for the melting. Snow is not anything to which I want to become acclimated. I’m already starting to look forward to next year’s road construction season.
Early October Snow
It will not stay.But this morning we wake to pale muslinstretched across the grass.The pumpkins, still in the fields, are planetsshrouded by clouds.The Weber wears a dunce capand sits in the corner by the garagewhere asters wrap scarvesaround their necks to warm their blooms.The leaves, still soldered to their branchesby a frozen drop of dew, splashapple and pear paint along the roadsides.It seems we have glanced out a windowinto the near future, mid-December, say,the black and white photo of wintercarefully laid over the present autumn,like a morning we pause at the mirrorinspecting the single strand of hairthat overnight has turned to snow.
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