'Bout blody time

3-5 inches expected tonight. This winter has been absurd thus far. We went straight from indian summer into a deep freeze, and for the last month or so we have basically moved on to spring.

But that ends tonight as once again the earth will be enclosed in a blanket of gentle white silence as it should be this time of year. There is something unmittigatingly ugly about bare ground in January. Brown lawns, bare trees and those unsightly piles of snow exiled to the corner of parking lots reminders of a lost season, long turned black by the exhaust of a million SUVs.

This is also good because one of the gifts I received when I went back to the Parental Estate for the holidays was an inflatable snow tube. Like any small child I have been fantasizing about taking it down the hill by the North Ave. water tower. Perhaps tomorrow I will be able to do that.