Cabin Fever - P52 Week Eight

My husband and I spent the afternoon driving the back roads of the U.P. looking for a cabin for my P52 picture for this week. The theme is Cabin Fever. We are in the U.P. visiting our daughter at college. She had classes most of the day today and other activities tonight, so we had the majority of the day to ourselves. It was very nice spending time together just the two of us.

I felt a little bit like a stalker standing at the bottom of the driveway of a cabin of somebody I do not know, but thankfully nobody was home, and no neighbors too close by to report back to these people that somebody was taking a picture of their cabin.

The snow distorts the landscape

Beneath its weight, trees sag, bushes bow
A blanket and a burden

Individually unimportant

A collective load

Impassable and impersonal

As featureless as a blank check

A smooth, white road too deep to drive

Too slick to walk

Too cold to enjoy

Beneath its pillowed surface only ice

And the fragile grass

 © Jessica Minier Mabe