November 20, 2007
Tuesday

There are seven or eight categories of phenomena in the world to talk about, and one of them is weather.
                                — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
                                    American essayist

Thoreau doesn’t say what the other six or seven categories are. I’m choosing the weather to talk about, again, because even though I had a very productive day, writing about what I produced would be too much like a conventional diary entry. (Really, do you want me to list the writing exercises I did and describe the research that led me to an announcement of the fifty-ninth annual convention of the Catholic Cemetery Conference next year?)

Yesterday I posted a picture of the sunrise I enjoyed out here on the high plains, and contrasted it with the chilly scene of winter that I’d have beheld were I at home. Here’s what greeted me this morning:

The weather forecast last night called for light snow ending today and then ten days of “partly cloudy.” I thought I might rent a car when I am taken into town tomorrow and do a little sightseeing on the weekend.

By this morning the forecast had changed: 1-3 inches in the lower elevations, 6-8 inches in the higher (where I am).

I stopped reading when I got to the avalanche warnings.

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