Signs of Life

Today Lily and I walked to the reservoir, it's been a while since I walked out there. I noticed behind one house snow had been shoveled off the frozen pond in a big rectangle, for skating. Further out on the ice I saw a round hole that was probably made for ice fishing. I saw a man in his yard chopping wood with an axe, and he told me he had a splitter but loved to do it by hand. I told him I loved the sound of the axe hitting the wood. The sun was out and the air was fresh. I took the long way home, stopping at Turbesi Park so Lily could run in big circles in the fenced-in baseball field. When I got home I had hot cereal and a hot cup of tea.