Waving curves of snow stretch for miles;earth frozen and sleeping beneath a frigid blanket.
Mounds of scooped and plowed gritty gray snow are unceremoniously pushed aside for cars and trucks to pass unimpeded.
Ice, polished by wind and snow lays down dangerous strips on black and frozen asphalt.
Graceless piles of gray snow stacks up in yards, ditches and along roadways.
Banks of snow blow up against anything immovable sculpting a wintery landscape, burying all but a few spare and dry hints of growth and green.
Winter, a valuable season of hibernation and dormancy,
allows earth to rest, regroup and recharge while we live busy lives on her surface.
Other winter hardened animals work harder for food and shelter.
Evergreen trees and skeletons of deciduous trees fill in spaces on plains and mountain.
Man's cooperation with weather, land and animal keeps us all fed, clothed and warm.
“Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
~ Chief Seattle
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