[Written—but not posted—Monday, December 20]
It’s snowing tonight.
Not anything unusual for up here on the high windswept plains of Laramie, Wyoming.
The snow is “of easy wind and downy flake” a la Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
The soft and downy flakes are falling gently against the dark and empty night.
Stepping outside, with the Medicine Bow National Forest to the East and the Snowies to the West, one can almost hear the snowflakes gently falling.
Laramie is deserted about now.
Everyone is gone—or soon will be—to points elsewhere around the lower 48.
I would love to be in Yellowstone, or the Tetons, “to watch the woods fill up with snow.”
Then again, this past spring I wrote about feeling “almost” lost up in the Medicine Bow National Forest on a May day.
It was gorgeous and I had that “if a tree falls in the woods” sense of isolation.
I’m hoping to have more “adventures” this coming year.
Tonight is the last lunar eclipse until 2014.
Alas, I missed it.
With the snow and cloud cover, I don’t know if it was even visible from Laramie.
Hope someone out there got to see it.
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