Snow over ice

Sookie in her element (photos in this article by the author)

It’s Monday morning, the morning that my wife has dropped our daughter off at Bradley Airport for her flight home. We love our daughter, and appreciated the extended stay — nearly two months — that we ended up enjoying with her when her flight kept being cancelled, but now we’re both listening, amazed, to the quiet in our house. Today, light snow falls over everything, returning us to frozen temperatures after a few days of warmer weather and heavy rains.