WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.467 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.467 --> 00:00:02.175 align:middle line:90% How about winter? 00:00:02.175 --> 00:00:05.520 align:middle line:90% 00:00:05.520 --> 00:00:06.540 align:middle line:90% Haven't hit winter yet. 00:00:06.540 --> 00:00:13.590 align:middle line:90% 00:00:13.590 --> 00:00:15.060 align:middle line:84% It sometimes gets very cold where 00:00:15.060 --> 00:00:16.440 align:middle line:90% I live as you can well imagine. 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:20.370 align:middle line:84% You could only imagine because it doesn't get cold here. 00:00:20.370 --> 00:00:21.930 align:middle line:84% It can get very, very cold indeed. 00:00:21.930 --> 00:00:23.222 align:middle line:90% It doesn't happen all the time. 00:00:23.222 --> 00:00:25.265 align:middle line:90% 00:00:25.265 --> 00:00:27.390 align:middle line:84% You probably don't know very much about Washington. 00:00:27.390 --> 00:00:28.350 align:middle line:90% There's two Washingtons. 00:00:28.350 --> 00:00:30.490 align:middle line:84% There's the part that's wet that everybody's heard of. 00:00:30.490 --> 00:00:32.340 align:middle line:84% And there's the part that's dry where I live. 00:00:32.340 --> 00:00:33.923 align:middle line:84% Part that's wet doesn't get very cold. 00:00:33.923 --> 00:00:36.955 align:middle line:84% But the parts that's dry does get very cold. 00:00:36.955 --> 00:00:38.580 align:middle line:84% But it's normally in the 20s, something 00:00:38.580 --> 00:00:39.663 align:middle line:90% like that about this time. 00:00:39.663 --> 00:00:42.930 align:middle line:84% I think it was about 25 when I drove over to the airport. 00:00:42.930 --> 00:00:47.850 align:middle line:84% However, every once in a while, it drops down to like 10 below. 00:00:47.850 --> 00:00:50.010 align:middle line:84% Sometimes it stays there for a couple of days, 00:00:50.010 --> 00:00:52.433 align:middle line:84% and sometimes it stays there for a couple of weeks. 00:00:52.433 --> 00:00:54.600 align:middle line:84% It's rare when it stays there for a couple of weeks. 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:56.760 align:middle line:90% But it happens and it happened. 00:00:56.760 --> 00:00:59.010 align:middle line:90% I was there. 00:00:59.010 --> 00:01:01.920 align:middle line:84% You don't notice it is the funny thing. 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:03.780 align:middle line:84% When it gets cold below a certain point, 00:01:03.780 --> 00:01:04.709 align:middle line:90% it's all the same. 00:01:04.709 --> 00:01:07.250 align:middle line:90% Pay for not noticing it. 00:01:07.250 --> 00:01:08.250 align:middle line:90% But you don't notice it. 00:01:08.250 --> 00:01:10.197 align:middle line:90% It's dangerous that way. 00:01:10.197 --> 00:01:11.280 align:middle line:90% And strange things happen. 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:14.370 align:middle line:84% Certain animals that aren't around come around. 00:01:14.370 --> 00:01:16.230 align:middle line:84% I have deer that winter behind me. 00:01:16.230 --> 00:01:17.947 align:middle line:84% But if it gets cold enough, other animals 00:01:17.947 --> 00:01:18.780 align:middle line:90% come in behind them. 00:01:18.780 --> 00:01:20.940 align:middle line:90% They're looking for graze. 00:01:20.940 --> 00:01:23.580 align:middle line:84% This is about a cold period like that. 00:01:23.580 --> 00:01:25.170 align:middle line:90% It's called cold snap. 00:01:25.170 --> 00:01:26.145 align:middle line:90% It has three parts. 00:01:26.145 --> 00:01:29.550 align:middle line:90% 00:01:29.550 --> 00:01:32.820 align:middle line:84% Two hours pass as the hawk rests, 00:01:32.820 --> 00:01:36.360 align:middle line:84% I stare at his dark head turning above a breast so light. 00:01:36.360 --> 00:01:39.450 align:middle line:84% It seems snagged in the branches. 00:01:39.450 --> 00:01:43.980 align:middle line:84% Though, he is tired and the cold robs him, he sits erect. 00:01:43.980 --> 00:01:47.280 align:middle line:84% The last time I look up, there is a tumbling of snow. 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:51.990 align:middle line:84% And on sheathing of wings, he bends and leaps to the air. 00:01:51.990 --> 00:01:54.720 align:middle line:84% To the west, men lower their heads. 00:01:54.720 --> 00:01:56.580 align:middle line:90% Bowl past one another. 00:01:56.580 --> 00:02:00.900 align:middle line:84% Each dark form pulling its own weight through the city. 00:02:00.900 --> 00:02:04.620 align:middle line:90% The Red Tails line is pure west. 00:02:04.620 --> 00:02:06.600 align:middle line:90% Goodbye. 00:02:06.600 --> 00:02:10.620 align:middle line:84% With some luck, I watched him sail with more the pigeon 00:02:10.620 --> 00:02:12.270 align:middle line:90% and Jack rabbit escaped. 00:02:12.270 --> 00:02:17.370 align:middle line:84% Skyward and Earth would like a pine. 00:02:17.370 --> 00:02:19.080 align:middle line:84% Red tailed by the way is a kind of hawk. 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:22.350 align:middle line:90% 00:02:22.350 --> 00:02:24.450 align:middle line:84% I was far off and they were in the open. 00:02:24.450 --> 00:02:26.280 align:middle line:84% So I took them for loose cattle, who 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:28.110 align:middle line:90% had nudged a gate back a bit. 00:02:28.110 --> 00:02:32.160 align:middle line:84% Then kept just outside it lacking more courage. 00:02:32.160 --> 00:02:36.210 align:middle line:84% If their fur seemed heavy, that was winter's doing. 00:02:36.210 --> 00:02:40.500 align:middle line:84% Just as I started to turn, the head of one came up. 00:02:40.500 --> 00:02:42.930 align:middle line:90% The neck was like a camel's. 00:02:42.930 --> 00:02:46.140 align:middle line:84% Then the snow had poured seemed a cold sand. 00:02:46.140 --> 00:02:50.370 align:middle line:84% The white clouds above it alive with running script. 00:02:50.370 --> 00:02:52.920 align:middle line:90% The sky was salmon and blue. 00:02:52.920 --> 00:02:55.980 align:middle line:84% There was mauve on the southern ridge. 00:02:55.980 --> 00:02:57.780 align:middle line:90% Of course, I knew them. 00:02:57.780 --> 00:03:01.930 align:middle line:84% All come down from the cold, hungry visitors. 00:03:01.930 --> 00:03:04.230 align:middle line:84% My delight was not their purpose. 00:03:04.230 --> 00:03:06.780 align:middle line:84% But it seemed unlikely they would take offense 00:03:06.780 --> 00:03:09.600 align:middle line:84% at the warmth that coursed through me like raw whiskey. 00:03:09.600 --> 00:03:14.090 align:middle line:90% 00:03:14.090 --> 00:03:16.370 align:middle line:84% I can walk out without the air igniting 00:03:16.370 --> 00:03:19.940 align:middle line:84% my lungs with my color on my cheeks, not 00:03:19.940 --> 00:03:22.520 align:middle line:90% bloods or the weathers. 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:27.350 align:middle line:84% I can stand in place refusing to stir and unconsciously 00:03:27.350 --> 00:03:30.320 align:middle line:84% begin the fall into myself that is endless. 00:03:30.320 --> 00:03:32.960 align:middle line:84% Until with the dare, I trek off into the hills 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:34.310 align:middle line:90% and hidden cliffs. 00:03:34.310 --> 00:03:38.720 align:middle line:84% And the living animal in me has guided me back home. 00:03:38.720 --> 00:03:42.860 align:middle line:84% Except it is not simply warm, but only warmer 00:03:42.860 --> 00:03:47.150 align:middle line:84% as the hawks down and the Elks Ruff testify. 00:03:47.150 --> 00:03:50.240 align:middle line:84% What has come is a break in a spell. 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.600 align:middle line:84% The cold, which is mild compared with what was 00:03:53.600 --> 00:03:56.900 align:middle line:84% is enough to have killed whoever stood in it like a fool 00:03:56.900 --> 00:04:00.760 align:middle line:84% and could or would not acknowledge this world.