January Green
- At January 18, 2012
- By Dian Day
- In Home
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The Year of No Summer slides into The Year of No Winter. Such off-kilter seasons are forgiving: today I raked the sodden oak leaves from my yard, the ones I didn’t get to in November. Despite these second chances, this seasonal deception is hard on all of us. I am sure I have seen catkins waving in alarm beside the road, their tiny blossoms defenceless, their precious pollen doomed.
Beach in Winter
- At January 11, 2012
- By Dian Day
- In Travelling
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Cold weather changes this place: wind bites; sand becomes rock; shells become fossils; waves leave the thinnest layer of ice all along the shore, like a white line in the sand that only the seals cross. We stay on the dry side, counting barnacles and pulling scarves around our faces.