One degree of separation

Knife-edged snow falls wistfully down from a sky of deep grey emotion from the base of the clouds to the rain-covered ground like a completely silent explosion. The grass in the fields takes on a sheen of its own a billion ice spears reach up to the sky. The trees glisten painfully frozen in time not single bird daring to fly. The rain and the ice and the snow coat the land like the palm of a…