winter's gift of silence

one of the things i do appreciate about winter is the silence. yesterday as i worked - dyeing and spinning and filling out yet more paperwork for canada customs (in preparation for carrying samples across the border for the acre orlando tade show in a couple of weeks), the snow began to fall. if fell all morning.

it fell all afternoon.

and into the evening. with no wind, it quickly piled up onto every surface. abigail and i went out to shovel in late afternoon, it was like shovelling white air.