(Top picture: Winter 2008, Hollister, CA; Bottom picture: Summer 2005)

Right now it's cold outside, the air's in a frenzy
A contrast of the ambient mood
and the mad rush dash down in the main street
Life's an unstable state of motion and inertia
Yikes!
I yearn for a balmy lazy summer afternoon
To read a Crichton novel under the pergola.