Snowy Walk

The weather forecasters have warned us. We know. 

Based on past experience we know that our winter won't begin 

until a cold breeze passes through to pick up information

it can take back to its cohorts back in Siberia --

"Hey, Indy has some big plans to lay on a 

giant party. Let's go mess with 'em." 

Those big plans generally involve our high school

basketball tournaments, a state-wide happening that

climaxes each year in Indianapolis with the best four

teams meeting to decide the year's champion.

Some years it's the NCAA tournament in March.

This year it's the Super Bowl and, just as 

the city is beginning to set up the tents and exhibits,

the temperatures have dropped thirty degrees

and given us this brush of snow to practice with.

I walked over to the store around noon for some groceries, 

and took these pictures on the way. I like the play of positive and

negative space between the leaves and snowy ground in the

first picture, but wish I'd thought to pick out the dried oak leaf

before I took the picture of the sprig of ivy growing

at the base of the tree, as it interferes with the arc of the vine.

When I returned an hour later, the ivy had already 

succumbed to the weight of the snow.