Winter has seen fit to descend finally and the last days have been bitter cold and snow covered, nothing like the northeast I know. But this is southern Indiana and a few inches here feel like at least ten did when I lived in Buffalo many years ago. Perspective shifts reality. Well sometimes. Take the field across from my home. I live at the end of a long dead end drive. In summer we can’t see any other homes, in winter I can glimpse two houses across the ravine. For 15 years

This week’s weather goes something like this; snow, snow again, more snow, clear and warming, more warming, thunderstorms and tornado warnings. The weather here is a wild card, it can freeze or snow or be balmy any given day from November to March. Usually though it doesn’t do any one of these for any length of time – but this year we drew the wild card. Weeks and weeks of well below freezing, snow and cold, frozen ponds and roof top icicles catching the bright weak sun. The