Winter

It snowed before Christmas. A lot. Then around the new year it started to melt. Snow is less attractive when it starts to melt. It goes from fluffy and soft to dense and hard. I say it started to melt because it never finished melting. It has been freezing since then but no new snow. All we have left is dirty, hard, old snow and lots of cold. It is still mounded up all over town. But to give the city credit they have been trying to clear all the roads and sidewalks of the snow that just won't go away. The problem is the snow is now one big solid block. Removal is not for the faint of heart. I think that it's getting harder to find places to put all this crappy old snow. No one wants it and it just won't go away. Not that I'm sick of it... I mention this because as I was walking home today I walked past a section of sidewalk that I know was covered with snow a couple of days ago. Not just a little snow but a mound that went over my head. I avoided walking that way because I had to walk in the busy street to get past it. Well, it was gone this morning. Some poor industrious soul had to break it up, load it into a truck and haul it away.
Another thing that is getting to me is the cold. I don't leave the house unless I am fully attired. I tried to walk somewhere without a hat the other day (to maintain pretty hair) and I think my ears almost fell off. Some days when I'm walking home I like to look up until all I can see is the sky and the evergreens. Then I try to trick myself into thinking it is summer. I'm wearing shorts and sandals and I'm not cold. It never works for long and I can't decide if it makes me feel better or worse.