Another Winter Storm

Another storm is creeping its way across the Northeast this morning. Predictions suggest eight to twelve inches of new snow. Any accumulation will sit atop ten inches already on the ground. Only a little bit melted in the sunshine of the last few days because the temperatures have been at zero or just above.

I watched some Robins drinking snowmelt on the south side of a garage roof yesterday. They would dip their beaks into a tiny stream melt, gather some water, and tilt their heads back to swallow. 

Somebody forget to tell these guys that they are supposed to fly south for the winter. It must be tough for all species to get water when most of it freezes.

A little poetic muse while the snow flies and falls.

Jack Frost

©1995 Rolland G. Smith

We much malign a draft of cold

Slippin’ round a window old.

A chilling dash of winter clime

That paints a pane in ice of rime.

Without the draft and warmth within,

The crystal etch could not begin.

So let us praise the weathered sash

That lets us see frost panache.