Outside My Window Today
It snowed today. It snowed yesterday. Stuck inside with a busy baby. She’s walking around and tearing up the contents of cabinets. We took a trip to see her grocery store friends today. Wave to the nice vultures.
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It snowed today. It snowed yesterday. Stuck inside with a busy baby. She’s walking around and tearing up the contents of cabinets. We took a trip to see her grocery store friends today. Wave to the nice vultures.
The trees aside the snowy winter fields have a tragic ethereal skeletal quality. Against gray skies, they’re lacy delicate beautiful. This beauty interrupted, the deer body lays twisted, staring with dead dark eyes into oncoming traffic. Bleak and negative, grays and whites and blacks linear strips of trees stand guard against the open cold air…
Like in earlier years, the week of Martin Luther King’s Birthday holiday nearly took me out of the game. I had prepared myself for the agonizing three-day weekend. But was ill prepared for the surprise snow days that created a 10 day holiday. I begged people for playdates with no results. My kid got so…