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This morning’s walk was very foggy. We’ve had a week in the 40’s, so our snow is largely melted, revealing the first soil we’ve seen in months. The monochromatic scenery therefore felt hopeful and bursting with promise, instead of gloomy, as it might at another time. It felt good to move again, and no longer be hemmed in by drifts of snow. The moisture in the balmier air was blessedly not crystalline. Imagine that! How lovely that spring is finally on the verge of coming!

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