Lovely snow graced New Year's eve. We woke this morning to see the form of one of my favorite trees, Ostrya virginiana (American hophornbeam), etched in white. It is just beyond the snout of one of our several Julbocker or Swedish Yuletide goat. There are several interpretations as to the history and function of the goat in Swedish culture which you can find on the web.
The straw goat's horns remind me of the bighorn sheep featured in the current book I am reading. It is EATING STONE: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild by one of my favorite writers, Ellen Meloy (I rave about her book The Anthropology of Turquoise on my website homepage).
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