Brief respite

Drove home with the window cracked down, because it's sunny and two degrees above freezing. You would have to live in the North and have endured the past few weeks of uncommon cold to understand. Tonight and tomorrow: freezing rain, snow and high winds.

Behind the cut is a picture I took of myself sitting atop the crate we shipped to Halifax today. It contains the wind lines, weighs 250 pounds or so, and took five men to lift into the back of a transport truck.

The next two weeks will be slow. I finished work at 3 today and unexpectedly have tomorrow off.

The snow on the fields is wind glazed, blinding white when you look toward the sun.



( self-portrait with crate )