Shadows moving with the sun

On Sunday, the first day of February, approximately one half inch of new snow fell at the Alturas Lake ski area. Over the Hill, South Loop and Wapiti were groomed for skating. On Monday morning, the second of February, at 6:30 a.m., local groundhogs crawled up from their burrows into a shadowed world and seeing their shadows quickly retreated, predicting the return of six snowy weeks. But retreat not in fear from life, like our groundhog friends, in the words of Longfellow…

Be comforted; the world is very old,
And generations pass, as they have passed,
A troop of shadows moving with the sun;
Thousands of times has the old tale been told;
The world belongs to those who come the last,
They will find hope and strength as we have done.