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As winter captures us rather sliding down the road in our vehicles, or huddled around a warm fire, winter tends to keep us indoors and the cabin fever that results.  I have cabin fever officially.  I declare it to be so.  

 Part of the frustration is that I have to trudge through incredible snow right now to get anything done.  I have a hard time imagining getting out in it.  It seems a tremendous amount of work.

Don't misunderstand, I am an enthusiastic winter camper.  It just right now, seems so much work.  Thus cabin fever is known and made manifest.  A brief thaw, a bit of warmth we hope for to break the fever and get us out with less challenge. Yet that break seems elusive this last week, the fever grows.

 Got to take heart, the days are beginning to lengthen.  Mid-January brings noticeable change.

So, I am going to putz with some gear, start planning the season, and hope to spend more time in the woods.  I imagine a warm Manistee breeze and the sounds of water moving, birds singing, and the whisp of a dragonfly as it buzzes past my boat.  I think of the warmth from the sun, especially morning sun and the smell of morning dew as it begins to evaporate.  

 Those small pleasures seem to loom so large right now.  Yet it is so easy to not give them their due as we bask in their glory.  Warm sun, the sounds and smell of summer seem glorious right now. 

I hope to share those moments with as many folks as would enjoy it. . . .  

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