Darkness slithered in like an unctuous serpent, enigmatic, noxious and malevolent.  It quickly suffocated the light and all that was good and decent.  Evil could be done in the shadows.  Trickery and thievery thrived there. In honor of Halloween, and all things cryptic, dark, and wicked, I offer you a frightening…

This is the part of winter I dread most – dirty, melting snow atop muddy, dinted grass.  It’s truly gray and dreary, and ugly.  Everything looks as if it needs to be dusted, swept, hosed down, bleached.  It weighs heavily on the soul and dents the spirit.  The solution?  Snow,…