It's a balmy 47 degrees, outside, and drippy.
It's raining in Old Forge, too.
Somewhere, in our boxes of snapshots, we have a picture of Allison with my mother, Joan Olsson and me, all playing croquet on a warm Christmas day back in the 1970s.
And, during snowless times like this, I remember the first line of a poem read in second-year French class: "Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?"
According to an entry in Wikipedia, "François Villon (ca. 1431 - ca. 1474) was a French poet, thief, and vagabond. He is perhaps best known for his Testaments and his Ballade des Pendus, written while in prison. The question 'Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?', taken from the Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis and translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti as 'Where are the snows of yesteryear?', is one of the most famous lines of translated secular poetry in the English-speaking world."
More memories!
Take a nostalgic trip back to a time before "game boys" when Model Trains were the Best Toys Ever! The train exhibit is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Tuesday through Friday at the Oneida County Historical Society, 1608 Genesee St., Utica.
