With the images of blizzards and snowstorms in the rest of the nation, this amount of snow comes off as very puny. However, after a hailstorm, this was my reality and I was delighted by it. So seldom do we get our surfaces covered with these light-changing effects that the heart cannot help but be moved.

Have been listening to lectures on the Great Courses CDs I was shocked to know how much of music history has been lost. All that music, all that joy moved out into the universe without a trace and here is snow on my porch.

pink hail

on carpets of heather

the will to live

so close to the cold

deepens the hue