It’s snowing outside my Arlington Virginia house…just a stop light from the DC line and the Potomac River. Snow is always preferable to the “wintery mix” that really means ice…which is what we get often in these parts of the US. I’ve been out shoveling the walkway but it looks like that might be a losing battle at this point…the stuff is coming down very hard. Nevertheless, I can still hear the jets taking off from Reagan National Airport–which is good because tomorrow I’m headed for Woods Hole, taking the US Air shuttle into Boston.
Boston is about 75 miles north of Woods Hole, and I’ll be driving down after spending the afternoon at my sister’s house in Cambridge. Hopefully it’ll all be plowed snow and I’ll have an easy time of it.
As for Woods Hole and the MBL ? It’ll remind me of the winter I spent there in 1979-1980, quiet, beautiful and very much full of the sea. I’m there for a meeting with the journal’s staff and a meeting with the MBL director.
Jim
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