winter

it has been window plastic season for a while now, and a new season has cropped up within the old one.  this is the season when you have to leave your water running slowly at night so that the pipes do not freeze.  ages past, in 1996, I remember this strange season.  it was lost to the climate here for a very long time, and now it is back.  the usual white mantle of clouds and heavy cloak of city snow abounds here.  it is Rodinia, Columbia, Gondwana, Laurentia, Greenland, Antarctica, every continent lost to glaciers, the albedo of the ice reflecting away any chance of a spring thaw.  it was coming before we  postponed it, the next ice age.