Z is for . . . Zero

Posted for a variety of prompts:

ABC Wednesday (“Z is for …”)

Easy Street Prompts (“repossessed”)

Heads or Tails (“bottle”)

Simply Snickers (“wake,” “watch” and “worries”)

Photo/s posted in response to these prompts:

Camera Critters (photo/s)

Photo Hunt (“night”)

Scenic Sunday (photo/s)

Wordless Wednesday (any day – photo/s)

Z is for . . . Zero

The temperature has hovered around and below zero. The wind-chill readings drop even lower. Winter’s rampage is in full swing.

In such times, we find ourselves feeling particularly thankful for warm shelter. Does winter frighten us? Not at all, if we are safely ensconced in our cozy spot.

Photos c2009 by Nickers and Ink

“You can't get too much winter in the winter.”

Robert Frost

American Poet

(1874 – 1963)

Bottled Up –

A Limericked Rill on Winter’s Chill

The mercury by my front door

Is lower than the day before.

Thus repossessed,

The Great Midwest

Is hearing Old Man Winter’s roar.

The crystallizing banks of snow

Cast a zirconic glitter-glow.

With striking sight

Of frigid blight,

The temps hit zero and below.

We hunker in our hovels warm

And pray protection from the storm.

The bluster howls

And bares his jowls;

In eight short weeks shall he transform.

No worries have we, as we wait.

We watch the wintry wake, sedate.

For in our clime

It’s only time

Till tundra’s terrors shall abate.

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