Wow! The sun came out yesterday. It had been so long I had thought it had been absorbed piece by piece until nothing was left. It was still there shining down on plumbers, Catholics, nurses,  ladder salesmen, Muslims, librarians, truck drivers, housewives, Mormons, corn dog eaters, carpet cleaners, sad and happy people, and everyone else in our valley.  
We have been living in this bowl of split pea soup gasping for air as hydrocarbons filled our lungs. The news lady told us it was a red burn day, meaning no fires in the fireplace. I don't believe a few logs on the fire is going to cure our four week inversion. That is like trying to fix a contaminated beach with a single grain of white sand. People are suppose to limit their driving, but the roads are bumper to bumper flowing steadily to all those important responsibilities. The remaining snow from a long ago storm sits furrowing and immoveable on driveways and highway edges. The temperature holds below the magic thirty-two degrees and has done so for some time. A lot of us thought about moving to that mythical shoreline where smog is only viewed on the TV. But, we stay.
Wow! It was nice to see our old friend lighting the town and surrounded by millions of acres of blue. For the time the thick polluted air is forgotten.
It snowed today from a puffy sky.