12/10/11 sky and pavement both clear swept by the same wind the season is of first cold every frost now is a hard frost and a morning with no frost makes us feel lucky the busy wind in its wide world has cleaned things up and moved them around I drive along past stone faced buildings and wooden houses the road I am on goes up and down and bends this way and that as the shape of the earth here in this place dictates it is easy to forget the shape of the earth when on the road going to a building where you are needed past stores and houses lined up and leveled and brought together at right angles your attention is on the buildings and finding the one you need and minding traffic it might as well all be built on nothing