Despite the threat of bears attacking them, I fill my bird feeders one more time…

“I feel like we’re living in a snow globe”, she said…

Grief is a river, taking the form & shape of the channels it's forced through, and yet, flow is everything…

“They're old people", he said, then fell silent. "How old?" I countered. "Oh, in their 70s ..." he replied…

I was driving back from the post office Saturday morning, and since I'd had it in my mind to try to connect a couple trails between conservation land & a local park, I decided to first drive by to gauge snowfall amounts…

The town plow decided not to plow to my house today, but close to it, which was no cigar…

Sometimes you have to play out a hunch…

Leaving Jeff's, I didn't know where I was going but I decided to continue along the dirt road bordering his property, because I'd seen a car coming out of it, which meant it was passable, probably…

The claws of winter are still about, cruel to some, kinder to others…

What's left of the snow cleaves to my heart, as if its melting is some remnant of my own dissolution…

We stop at the old farmhouse to feed the cat, stepping gingerly over the threshold as if entering a museum called "home"…

"Can you tell me what was wrong with it?" he said, and it was a reasonable question…

We came to the dead end of the road, where a slight pull off allowed us to park…

And so it was, that the cold, fall rains began to come in earnest, plastering their slick, icy drops, onto summer's favorite outdoor seating…

My friend and I have a kind of obsession for off road exploring, but the post office can also be a place of adventure…

"I'm pretty sure this is not on their property," I said, hustling us along the woods road, one eye shifting towards the shuttered house on the hill, curtains drawn, blinds down…

The afternoon was crystal blue, draped in stillness, not a breath of wind…

It had been snowing through the night, & wind shook the house all into the next day…

Just another day in January, and I’ve got a lot on my agenda …

Trees frame my world…