Snow Still as Stone

By Cathy Salter

This brilliant February morning, the thermometer outside registers ZERO. Snow still as stone covers the ground.  I carry a cup of cardamom chai tea to the harvest table.  Before long, my thoughts begin to travel from the wintry scene beyond our patio door at Boomerang Creek to other scenes connected across time.  As if carried across a spinning Google Earth globe, I zoom westward to a hilltop in the Santa Monica Mountains in west Los Angeles. There, California sunlight reflects off the white stone façades of the Getty Center’s monumental structures. 

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