Goodbye snow. Or good riddance, perhaps ? A common thought this week, no doubt, as humans came face-to-face with Mother Nature in the form of huge amounts of snowfall across Scotland.
Finding himself defeated by the elements, man turned angry as he always does when he cannot control every aspect of the planet around him.
As ever, when that mastery of the elements eludes humanity someone has to be to blame. And those who are blamed try to look for excuses. Funny really.
Rather than wonder at nature; its beauty, its danger, we treat the weather elements as an enemy to be defeated in a battle to preserve 'our way of life'.
Are we winning ? Ask those trapped in their cars on the motorways, tired and cold and frustrated and, yes, angry.
Now, apparently, lessons will be learned, plans will be drawn up, new laws introduced so this is less likely to happen again. We must await the results of all of this human activity with a great deal of interest.
But will you allow me a smile and a sense of almost profound happiness when the natural world triumphs again ?
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