Tools...

...for removing a stopper-with a hole for an airlock-from a fermenting vessel.

Early in the sunlight

in the farmhouse

and a visit to the Bees after the storm

It was a long trudge out to the hives...

But I am glad I went to give them an air hole. I left the rest of the snow for insulation.

Valentines Day storm

"...eyes like windows

trickling rain..."
excerpted lyrics by Cat Stevens
"upon the pain getting deeper..."

...and then it snowed again.