This morning, we continue to remain trapped in the week’s Arctic air. As you see, during the cold spell, we’ve gotten some sun to dapple the hard snow, but it’s effect otherwise has been nothing but decorative, not perceptively warming:
Yesterday afternoon, the ice gods apparently decided to add insult to our injury and dump a little snow on us. We and our neighbors hunkered down and waited it out:
By the way, the idiom “to add insult to injury” reportedly came from one of Aesop’s fables as told by the Roman poet Phaedrus in the 1st Century. In the story, a fly bit the head of a bald man who instinctively swatted at the fly, but only whacked himself hard in the head. The fly jeered at the man, saying that his unthinking action had added insult to injury. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on January 18 and 20, 2024.)