Belties

Away in a manger

two Belties*

ate hay 

. . .

*These are Belted Galloways, otherwise known as Belties, or as Oreo Cows.

They live locally

and we love them.

xx

Snowbirch

This:

to stop you in your tracks

and 

remind you of:

Birches

by Robert Frost

When I see birches bend to left and right

Across the lines of straighter darker trees,

I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay

As ice-storms do. Often you must have seen them

Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning

After a rain. . . 

(partial poem. . .)

Winter Vignettes

Here's that red wheelbarrow again

now toting ice

and

two red kayaks

hunkered down

and

old woodpiles

slumbering

and

pond

glazed with ice

and

brook a-gurgling

ahhhh

winterlove

xx