Sat in the dark tonight, melting snow dripping quietly from trees around me. Snow remains in most places, obscuring so much of the character of the land. Many stars out, though only Orion and Canis Major visible through the branches of my pine, descending behind me.
Dry, dead twigs of the pine touched my hair as I silently looked around, making faint whisperings as my hair ran over them.
A neighbor walked outside with his dog two houses over as I prepared to return to the house. I determined to climb down from branch to branch only when cars passed, lest he become aware of my presence in the woods. I ended up making quite a racket as I rushed my steps to make good use of each car's roar, surely alerting every creature around to my presence but the person and his dog, who were closer to the road. As I passed over the grass and the snow toward my house, my snowpants continued the noise, and I considered wearing quieter clothing in the future.
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