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<title>Snowy spring</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2007/04/05/snowyspring</biblioid>
<volumenum>10</volumenum>
<issuenum>29</issuenum>
<pubdate>2007-04-05T12:56:27-04:00</pubdate>
<date>$Date: 2007-04-05 13:12:12 -0400 (Thu, 05 Apr 2007) $</date>
<author>
      <personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
</personname>
    </author>
<copyright>
      <year>2007</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
    </copyright>
<abstract>
<para>Winter cast His frosty gaze over the landscape last night.</para>
</abstract>
<dc:subject rdf:resource="http://norman.walsh.name/knows/taxonomy#Belchertown"/>
<dc:subject rdf:resource="http://norman.walsh.name/knows/taxonomy#Photography"/>
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<epigraph>
<attribution>
      <personname>
<firstname>Chuang</firstname>
	<surname>Tzu</surname>
</personname>
    </attribution>
<para xml:id="p2">We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended
on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter,
they gradually pass away.</para>
</epigraph>

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<para xml:id="p1">Winter cast His frosty gaze over the landscape last
night.</para>

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<para xml:id="p3">It is still a couple of weeks too early to declare that we are
beyond His icy grip.</para>

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    <!--Snowy woods-->
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<para xml:id="p4">Yet the pale spring sun made short work of His efforts. By
lunchtime, snow survives only in the deepest shadows.
</para>

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