February 7

2/07/08: Thursday, 8:30 AM. –3 degrees, barometer predicts snow. Wind S, dead calm. Skies clear and blue.
This is a crystalline morning, everything sparkling with tiny diamonds of frost. The trees on the Island are silvery. The snow sparkles. Trees are strung with tiny icy Christmas lights, blinking in the rising sun.
This looks like the beginning of another deep freeze, with –20 predicted by the weekend. It is cold but very beautiful. There is no traffic on the ice road yet, but I understand the emergency van, which is equipped with flotation devices in case it breaks through the ice, has been taking high school children back and forth.