I Do Believe The Groundhog Is Correct

      . . . .   Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil came out of his burrow at Gobbler's Knob and saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter. 

Out There has all the signs of another 6 weeks of this winter to go.  At least.  It's still snowing.  Or raining.  Or both.  Something is still falling out of the sky t 7 PM Tuesday!

The last I heard, back around 9 AM this morning, is that Central Park had registered at least 17.2 inches.  But I don't know how much really fell by now, as it got to be very wet stuff, which is heavy, so compacts.

We have another snow dropper rolling up for around Friday, but maybe not a blizzard?

Nevertheless yesterday and today were quite pleasant.  It's not that we did anything different, just that we knew there was no point, no point at all, in even trying to do anything outside.  So we didn't have to do that anxious gearing up to Go Out, calculating masks, timing, etc., and now all the clothes and gear we have to take with us Out, to be safe for ourselves and others.  I even let go the biography of Confucious that I've been wanting forever, and the library finally got for me.  I was to pick it up yesterday or today, and just cannot.  O wait!  I just went to the website, and they've extended the pickup to Friday!

The best part of yesterday was that el V was able to make art -- his own art.  Junior Mance, the great jazz piano artist has died.  He did a video shoot out of the window in the back in the storm yesterday, and then set it to music he had done with Junior way back in 1996.  The week they recorded this, was one right after a major blizzard too. The cut el V chose is "The Wind in the Willows": lyrics by Lawrence Weiner; piano, Junior Mance; vocals and guitar, el V.

The music video is very beautiful.  Today el V's so calm.  It's been so long since he's been able to do work like this.  Work, with no objective than to do something beautiful and true.