Friday was not a snow day for me. I drove for work while the roads were messy. It took a little while to get up the first hill I came to, but eventually, I was on my way, just at about two thirds of my normal speed. The heavy wet snow stuck to the trees and the parkway was beautiful. It made me think of A.E. Housman’s poem, “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now”.

About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

as well as Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,

So, I pressed on, thinking of the beauty of the snow, the dangers it brings and my promises to keep.

I tree had come down on our road and was leaning against the wire. We had to wait until the power company came out to cut down the tree, then for the town plow to come. I parked at a neighbor’s house and walked home.

I was tired and didn’t write a blog post on Friday. Saturday, I went to poetry group and also didn’t get to write.

My pile of reading material continues to grow. Various Lenten material and books for different study groups. There are ideas for blog posts pending, and I’m wondering what my balance of time over the next two months will be like.