2009, day 2: Blizzard conditions continue. The new year came in on a fierce winter storm and so far that's how the year is shaping up. We've shovelled out and cleared off the cars and now we're waiting for our friend, Merrill MacInnis, to come by with his pretty green plough to clear out the driveway. Perhaps it's a good thing he hasn't arrived yet because it's started snowing again.
Yesterday, strapping on snowshoes for a trek with Honey to the ocean to photograph the enormous crashing waves that were laying a bass beat to the roars and whistles of the wind around the house, I also took pictures of spruce trees laden with snow. I'll post some of the photos because they bring to mind a Jonathan Aaron poem from a recent New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/12/15/081215po_poem_aaron
On The Checkout Girl front, still no reviews, though I've had lots of very positive feedback in emails. I've not given up on reviews, not for a second, but I am beginning to research a vague but persistent idea that is agitating for a novel. A series of ideas, really, that might come together with a character who is not quite talking in my head yet, but is revealing himself bit by bit, suggesting to me that I should build a story around him. He's been apparent for some time, but he's becoming more defined, more than a little pushy, and no longer so easy to ignore. We'll see.
Meanwhile, Happy New Year to you all.
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