Mid winter and although we have not had a big winter's storm in our town, some of us have appreciated it so that we can get outside and actually walk in winter. Thoreau was a winter walker (in New England winter is probably a "good portion" of the year) and even noted he came in from the cold once looking like a human icicle he was so covered in ice. (And it's no wonder he had lung problems later.) So I have a few times walked at the local Bissett Park and worked on getting some needed vitamin D from the sunlight too. The trees have been brown and the river nearby has leisurely drifted along, with a few seagulls flying by recently. Where are they going? Heading south or north? Inland or back out to sea? Maybe they are in a quandary about what to do next.
I was also grateful it was sunny recently so that I could help pull up "alien" invasive plants that are overrunning Virginia Tech's "Stadium Woods". Stadium Woods has been in the news and it seems there is still not a definite decision about whether to "save" the woods or not. The 300 year old oaks there should be made part of a historic site.
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