Ice Ice Baby

Whoda thunk I'd be iced in....in LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS? Perhaps if I was doing a site visit in, say, Montreal? or Vancouver? But as I packed my Mommy Mobile and headed west...I can assure you I wasn't thinking I'd be heading into this.

I did check the weather forecast and, hopefully, it will be safe for me to head back tomorrow.

I look out my hotel window and this is what I see:

Little Rock or New York City?

City streets coated in ice

Heavy white plumes of steam

Escaping from manhole covers

A river slowly creeping by

Too cold to ripple or flow

Brave motorists

Cautiously making their way

A non-existent sky

Once blue and endless

Now obscured by fog and 

a drizzly, sleety mist

Pedestrians amble by

Huddled and bundled

No relaxed chit chat

As they go to and fro

Winter has settled here

If only briefly

Making a grand entrance

I am perfectly content

Surveying the scene from here

From the warmth of my perch

in Room 1623...

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