December 1, 2007 – Bitter cold.  A poem by Stanley Kunitz, courtesy of Mary Kellogg:

    “Woods, Fields, Farms”

   “I stood on the rim of the buggy wheel
    and raised my enchanter’s wand,
    with its tip of orange flame,
    to the gas mantles in their cages,
    touching them, one by one,
    till the whole countryside bloomed.”

     — Lamplighter,” 1914