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High 26, mostly cloudy

This is a short post because while I meant to write all week, today flew by.  I have been anticipating the snow storm which has just started, and in doing so, I sort of lost track of the time.  I went for a morning run, to the diner for a hearty breakfast, and then spent time with my sister.

Spending time with my sister meant making mozzarella, a new family tradition for us LaCroixs.  I use a simple recipe that I found in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, and (as she says) it really only takes 30 minutes to make a pound of cheese!  Of course, I try to use local milk when possible, or just the best quality milk I can find. 

As I made cheese at my sister's apartment, I enjoyed her view of Mount Tom.  She has a fantastic view of the summit out of almost every window of her apartment!  As we warmed ourselves in her kitchen, I tried to imagine Mt. Tom under 1 mile of ice, as it was during the last glaciation.  I looked to the darkening, clouded sky and tried to imagine beyond.  Beyond the clouds, up into the heavens.  Ice.  The trees clinging to the basalt columns almost seem like opportunists if you speed time forward in your mind, racing toward the present day.  Pine, maple, oak.  But still, there are those cliffs, now growing white and staying so for the next few months.