snow day II

A day at home with the snow. Snow shoeing and cross country skiing. Sound of snow pelting the dried beech leaves. Trees creaking in the wind. The color turquoise hiding in the bottom of the holes that Allyn's ski poles left in the snow. Dried apples in the trees in the high meadow. The warmth of the wood stove. Crosby Stills & Nash. Hot chocolate, soup, and chili.
When I was rifling through the bottom of a storage area for some snow pants, out popped my baseball glove, still holding a ball from summers past. Pitchers and catchers report for the Giants in 11 days.