there was a storm

1. this is beautiful. click it to make it full screen to get a sense. maybe it's just me.

2. this has some bendy trees. the colour of the sky is striking.

3) and this is the most beautiful. in the driveway of this house, a dad was playing hockey with his little girl (see the little snowgirl in between the mom and dad snowpeople).

there was a storm, a gift, an opportunity, a time, a plan. basically there was a place over there that we were going to for reasons, we had our reasons.

the plan involved dormant, snow covered cottages, people moving snow, and sunshine.

me and my gal were off, into the great blue yonder. (that i'm guessing means, the area over there/yonder, instead of 'the great blue yonder' as a singular noun, a mythic place).

i had gifted stacey's parents a coupon good for one snow removal from the roof of their cottage. they called it in, nary a week after i had jokingly said to her mother that it's too bad the coupon would expire this year, and here it hadn't snowed since christmas... 3 days later owen sound has no power. huge storm hits.

and we're off.

into the great blue over there.

and it was stunning.

and there were giant snowmen and the stillness and the trees all bent over, touching the ground with their heads, but not breaking, although many did. and we drove and we laughed and saw a windmill field that makes me excited still, like watching the future unfold in an old field, a giant array, the day of the triffids, war of the worlds, 50 of 'em, just standing in the great blue yonder. the pics will have to wait, as i was too excited to photograph them on the first drive by, and it was dark on the second. but i have seen the future!

"well hell, Ethel, i sure done don't know what he means, but the boy says they's farming wind over in the sky, yonder".

and so it is...