A Teton Winter Morning

Blog | February 9, 2010

Dawn rises on a bitter cold morning, dark mountains etched sharply against the pale sky. Everything is white and still and frozen – a Jack London far north morning. But it is mid February and the light is already strong as the earth tilts rapidly towards the sun at this latitude. It will warm 40 degrees in a matter of hours and the animals will curl themselves up in the sun,  warm and sleepy after a cold cold night. They endure uncomplainingly but it doesn’t mean it was easy on them. I hear loud complaining and scolding – the chickadees are calling for the  flies they have come to expect me to release from the log cabin window but my malamute Talkeetna is on the porch and they are annoyed.

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