gumballs and pine tags

Thank you to everyone and everything that enabled me to take a walk at 5 pm today. The ground was crunchy with snow and I came home with VERY cold fingers, but my feet were warm (thank you, hiking boots!) and I felt better than a person with a bad cold should. The best things about the walk were: the sound of the snow/ice cracking under my feet, 2) the gumballs sitting in little wells of snow along the path, and 3) the pine tags arranged in all sorts of configurtions along the way--some lying prostrate across the top of the snow, some standing upright, piercing the snow like daggers. I carried a few gumballs and pine tags home, and here they are.