11 January 2009

O, Sweet Shovel

And again, I must go out and shovel the driveway. Although I don't think I will go now as it is quarter to seven and no one is yet awake. I think it is pointless to wake the neighbors with the scraping of metal on cement. We got about 8 inches of snow between Friday and yesterday late in the afternoon.

Outside, the overcast sky is holding in ambient light from nearby stores and looks like a very murky, muddy peachpink. All the snow, as a result, seems to be enhance it. It leaves the picture out my window look like a charcoal drawing, with only spare lines of rooftops and branches of trees among the deep shadow of smudgy houses. It would make an interesting thing framed, but as a normal morning it isn't what I like to see.

But it is winter...and what can I do about it?

1 comment:

Melissa said...

So much depends
upon

a worn snow
shovel

crusted with white
frost

beside the front
door.