22 January 2009

Winter

Winter has been colder here than in recent years but wonderful. I know from personal experience that the ice on Lake Minnetonka is two feet thick. Today we move into the high 20's and may touch 30 degrees, the warmest day since late December.


"When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter." Phil Connors

"As I walked in the door the music was clear.
The purtiest voice I had heard in two years.
The song she was singin' made a man's blood run cold.
When It's Springtime In Alaska, it's forty below." Johnny Horton

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