Cold Breakfast

These girls are enjoying the last tasty blades of grass for the season. Already frosted a few times, and recently snowed on, this fodder will soon lose any flavor of Summer, wilt, and dry.

The Winter will run it’s course, tuck-in the meadows with blankets of snow, letting the ground rest for a few months.

The Delaware trail on Elk Mountain holds on to some of the snowfall from earlier this week. The weatherman promises a bit of a warm-up this weekend before temps drop back to seasonable levels.

It’s quiet now here on The Hill. Having turned their attention mostly toward their homes, folks are busy touching up leaky drafts, splitting and stacking wood, eyeing up what other projects must be done now, and which can wait till Spring.

Before it’s time for the snowguns to come on, it doesn’t much matter what the weather does: warm weather now makes those projects more doable before Winter sets, cold weather now heightens one’s ardor for the ski season.

Another couple of weeks from now, desires will turn to appropriately seasonable cold and snow, and acceptance that whatever projects are left, will still be there in the Spring.