Alpen Glow

That is what we see out our bedroom window early some mornings. If the sky is clear, Mount Washinton is visible. Today, we are getting a light snow but the ground is still clear since last weeks snowfall melted. The cats are running in and out as if they know the season is ending.
I have been working on Caturday quite a bit and now I'm trying to figure out how to make an extra column on Blogger's left side so I can add links to my favorite cat books. And I want to start adding my blogroll of friends here for Zuleme. There are people who encouraged me to start writing and people I want to encourage to keep going.
There are many times we stop and say how lucky we are to live where we do. From my kitchen where I sit I see hills and trees with the flakes of snow. Below me is a wet forest, not really a marsh, but flood plain. We ski down there and usually I walk down there in the fall but we had so much water this year it was always too wet. The Saco river is down there, through the woods and it is such a luxury to have a private place to walk in.
Winter is closing in, the fire wood is stacked in the garage and in the yard and next year's is along the driveway. Jeff the Neighbor and Sally, the Neighboress have left for the winter. We'll ski up into their land and into the National Forest. You can keep going for quite a ways if you have a mind to. Olof once skied all the way to Attitash and down the ski slope.
We're just waiting for enough snow to hit Jackson trails. The Ellis was gorgeous last year. I'll post some photos just to get ready. And there's nothing like going out and doing 20K and coming home to a woodstove and soup.
People who don't enjoy winter live in the wrong place. Snow! We want snow! And now that we have a garage it's really great.