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    Wolf Moon

    This was the week of the Wolf Moon, the first full moon in January, but it is also sometimes called the Ice Moon, or Snow Moon, which is more apt for this particular week when violent snowstorms have tranformed much of the Eastern Seaboard. Our property gently slopes down to a small lake, fed from one end by a river, and emptying from the other into the Long Island Sound. Around here they call it a “lagoon” which I find endlessly amusing, as to my mind a lagoon is a tropical thing, all flashing colored fish and clear cerulean water. A mermaid or two. Palm trees. Our lagoon is frozen,…