Getting Ready for a Road Trip to Virginia

I am up a bit later than usual; it felt good to sleep in and wake to light, a white lake, and not darkness.  It's about 20 degrees though it's going to get colder over the next couple of days. We are leaving tomorrow to babysit for Jill and family rather than Tuesday because the weather looks much better on Monday.  One of the advantages of being retired---no time table, you stay or go when you want.  I mentioned that we walked Long Point yesterday and have included a couple of pictures from that foray into the cold.  I also finished Patti Smith's memoir JUST KIDS yesterday, a National Book Award Winner, and I liked it well enough though it wasn't the kind of book you could not put down.  It's the story of her early years, trying to make it as an artist along with her mate, the controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, in the New York city of the late 60's and early 70's.  There friendship was extraordinary.  Not much else on the agenda for today other than packing, getting the car ready, hitting the library and enjoying the day, a bit brighter than usual though still overcast.

It's warming up, almost 25 degrees and I see some blue sky, a miracle in this land of gray.  It perks up the mood of all, a harbinger of spring perhaps, or just a respite from the winter.  I'll take it.