“Live as if today is the last day of your life,” goes the saying. At times you wish it was the last day. What to make of the frequent snows when I want to be planting in the garden? What if today’s snow was the last of my life? What if after today I could no longer see the morning sun make the snowy fields sparkle?

Or see sweet daphne buds poking out through the snow?

Or smile at long blades of grass bending under the snow?

Or feel the cold snow between my toes? What if indeed.