 Our first snow came last Tuesday on Election Day. I worked at home as I hope to do most snowy days. It was only a couple of inches, but it flocked everything good. The mountain ash in the Heron's back garden still has its red berries. Never pass up a photo of something red with snow on it.
The one bright light in Tuesday's awful election results was Maine and particularly here in Unity where our guy John Piotti was elected State Representative. I made him a web site. Graphically pathetic, but information rich. It's not easy getting a guy elected who has 3 degrees from MIT, but his experience and his people skills are light years beyond the big sweet dairy farmer who was his Republican opponent. Melissa catered his victory celebration at the Community Center last night. A lot of Republicans crossed over to work actively for him, so that the party was mostly our usual group of community minded friends. I spent time on 3 weekends in October delivering campaign flyers door to door in nearby Montville. That was sooo interesting. Montville is hilly and sparsely populated; we'd drive up long driveways to find some little household perched on a hillside with a spectacular view.  You can't just drop a flyer and leave in rural Maine; coming up their driveway is committing to something which you then have to own up to in person. So we usually knocked and handed it to the resident. I mostly did this with Pam PC, who also found scoping out houses, gardens,and views interesting. The political picture nationally is very scary. I hope that further weakening of environmental protections can be minimized in the next two years, and that the judiciary doesn't get rigged with anti-choice judges. I notice that some of the war rhetoric is softening now that we are past elections. A corporate-owned president and an attorney general with a religious agenda: the "axis of arrogance" is pretty scary. November tends to be gray, and so I'm fortifying soul by scheduling us for live music.  On Nov 15, we have tickets for a Janis Ian and Patty Larkin concert at Maine Center for the Arts, a few doors down from where I used to work at UMaine in Orono. On the 24th we'll go there again to see Henry Butler, Corey Harris, Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite, and Deborah Coleman do some Front Porch Blues. Henry Butler can create entire multi-dimensional worlds on the piano, and that's just his left hand. On the 22nd we'll walk down the street to our own theater to hear blues guitarist Derek Trucks.
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