Yesterday, Moorehead Minnesota's heat index was the highest anywhere in the world, according to The Washington Post. With the oppressive heat we've been experiencing here in Minnesota, I thought I'd share a cooler vista, a cold perspective from earlier this year. Feel free to fan yourself, metaphorically, with the following:

Winter landscape


Photo Annette Marie Hyder

Unpredictable
Winter 2011
Annette Marie Hyder

The rain was falling like soft tears
but has hardened now into snow—
this can often happen with the heart
as well as with the weather.