Snowbound-Genesis

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Originally uploaded by Martica.

As a younger girl...I had "this thing". Snow on the ground was way too beautiful to disturb. While friends scurried and tumbled through drifts, constructed igloos, and defended forts from snowball destruction...
I refused to change the peacefulness of it's depth.

When my own children were tiny...I sanctioned an entire area of the yard..."No Play Zone"...and would bask in it's untouched glory.

It's sorta like sand on a beach...no footprints...just natural ripples of grain.

I do treasure a photograph that was captured when I was exactly 17 years old. I am standing in front of my house in the city...a drift that measures 4 1/2 feet tall rises behind me...and I...in my grey MAXI coat...am dared to venture "beyond".

I never voluntarily touched it...let it be on it's own...yet the picture that was taken just moments later...by my friend who later left me behind and moved to Australia...is quite DISTURBING.
I am laying face down in it's glory!

I am past all of this now...
Gonna go outside and make snow angles...

But remember Frank Zappa-
"Don't you eat that yellow snow"