Weather Report

It is predictable since it is
after all December. What else
are we to expect other than
cold, wind, freezing rain or sleet
and snow? Haven't we been
through this before, one year
after another, all the years of our 
lives? It's a protracted seasonal
process, the graduation from
fall to winter, with nature
throwing in all her little tricks.
Today's surprise was setting out
in a cold, steady rain adequately
garbed for water-proofing
then suddenly a parting of 
dark clouds invited the sun
to add its pennyworth and the
wooded trek became brilliantly
illuminated. So we tramped
about the brightly sodden arras.