It was a dark and stormy day

 

 

Hey, I didn't sign up for this duty. I'm out of here! Where's the open water?

 

Didn't we just shovel the porch an hour ago?

In the end, it took a lot of tools - and toys to get us through the day. Everything and everyone either slowed down or came to a stop. The power of the snow was compelling, drawing us out to experience it up close and personal, to greet our neighbors in the middle of the un-plowed road, to talk, and laugh and confirm that everyone was alright.  It is not in our nature, as Robert Frost so eloquently says:

"To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason."

Yesterday we did.