Snow Melting

The sooner that stuff melts the better. Mornings are rather cold but we have plenty of sunshine and daytime highs are improving. Yesterday the sunlight was diluted by high, hazy, clouds, but not today. I've been reading about fungi that can infect the brains of certain insects, altering their behavior in the interest of spreading more fungi spores, to infect more hosts. Zombie fungi are a real thing, and a science fiction movie has used the premise that a zombie fungus evolves to infect humans, turning the hosts into-- zombies, who go on to infect other humans. And it occurred to me that such a thing already exists, in many forms. We call those infectious diseases religions. Certain belief systems can function like pathogenic fungi, turning their hosts into zombie-like infectious agents, creating yet more zombies. Far-fetched? I see at least a strong analogy. 

The good news is that the damage is reversible. Many people can and do recover from such infections, and go on to live happy and healthy and productive lives. And they might continue to practice a religion, but not in a pathogenic form. 

Record Snowfall!

 A little over seven inches at the airport and that was a record for the date yesterday. But it wasn't that cold and  this morning it is clear, and not as cold as forecast. Yesterday evening the stuff was melting already. Probably icy streets this morning and dangerous driving, but by noon, probably OK. I hope that's the last snow we see this winter. The end. But we needed the precipitation. It'll be sloppy for a while but I can deal with that. There should be plenty of sunshine today!

Sunflowers seem appropriate. Do I ever hate winter. 

SNOW

 I guess I got 4 to 6 inches but it's stopped and already starting to melt. Icy mornings for a few days, unfortunately. 

But we needed the precipitation and it was relatively painless, in that it wasn't all that cold. No ice storm, but just fluffy, wet, snow. And it should be sunny tomorrow with a high in the forties. The sooner it all melts the better. 

Maybe Some Snow

 Starting sometime over night and extending into tomorrow afternoon, snowfall turning into what will probably be a light drizzle. This is another forecast I'd like to see WRONG. But I'll be ready for it, whatever it turns out to be. And I felt like doing something different today, reaching back into the archives and re-working old scenes. I really like the black and white stuff and the subject matter I used then. I don't think I'd feel good at all, doing that again, visiting such places again, because it would necessarily and unfortunately be something I would have to do alone, and that would be hard to take. No alternative. 

My life now is sometimes as bleak as these scenes. I think I'll do more of this and save the sunflowers for later. Yes, more...

I call stuff like this a "life study". It IS life, isn't it?