Take in the sight of all the world around you dressed in white. If you really hate snow, I ask you to suspend your usual inclination to just say, "yuck", and try to see the beauty in the day.
At the moment of my writing this, Middlebury is covered in snow. The morning sun is shining down, lighting up all the white. Everything is covered with snow. I absolutely love it! I have a lot to do today, but I think I am going to go out for a quick walk in just a few minutes (right after I put another load of laundry in to wash) and take the camera.
I want to record some of this for some hot, sultry summer day.
On some future day, when summer is here and it is too hot to breathe, I will come in here to my computer. I will bring up my winter pictures. I will remember where I was and what I was doing when I took those pictures, and how cold it was. I will remember that there will be a return of this kind of weather. Though the older I get, the more the extreme temperatures, both hot and cold, seem to affect my body more adversely, I will still rejoice in the winter days that brought all this beauty.
In the photo at the top of this page, you will see another recording of a wintery day from years past. This picture is taken of a barnyard near Bonneyville Mill. I know, there is a dumpster right in the middle of the picture. That is unfortunate, but, to me, it is still an extraordinary memory. The picture was actually taken right after a late snow. It was, in fact, a March snow. I drove the back roads from Middlebury into Bristol and took several pictures along the way. This is one of my favorites because of the thick woods in the backdrop all covered with fresh snow. And I love old barns. I love that whole area of Elkhart County, anyway. But the barn with the woods makes it the best; along with the snow that is.
Anyway, I just want to remind you to enjoy the beauty. And to those of you who don't think it so particularly thrilling or beautiful, remember; "This too shall pass."
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