Winter...At Last

The snow began sometime around ten this morning. I've been watching it through the apartment's windows since then. May go jogging in it later. The cars are starting to lose traction. It won't be much, an inch or two, and it won't last long, but at last it's the brief rationale for spending winter in the city, as the flakes muffle the street noise and for a just a bit cover all the less inviting street debris in white. My winter clearance sweater from Eddie Bauer -- $19.99, a great deal -- got delivered with the snow and I wore it and my Yankees knit cap (pitchers and catchers report to spring training this week. To paraphrase Barack Obama, who injected who with what is the past, Opening Day is the future.) to our neighborhood restaurant where Bianca and I had lunch, half a carafe of wine, adding to the trance of the tumbling flakes, and mocking the couple of passersby who bore their open umbrellas against the snow. Where are these people from anyway??