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The Winter Blues Turn Fort Wayne White

A photo essay

By Jack Cantey

Fort Wayne Reader

2007-02-06

We’ve been waiting for it. Like the dentist appointment scheduled six months out, we’ve been gradually preparing for the pain of winter. Only this year, we were teased for months with a seductive mildness. “Maybe it just won’t come...”

But just as we were putting the stamps on our “thank you” cards addressed to Greenhouse Gases, the hammer fell, white and heavy. The wondrous and virgin beauty of the first snowfall quickly turned to gray, sullied clumps by our feet. Now, once again, we are entrenched in the annual rituals of remembering where our hats and gloves (our wintertime battle gear) are stored and how to walk and drive in snow. Our daily February workouts consist of scraping windshields and shoveling driveways.

I recently walked – shivered, really – through the frigid streets and parks of Fort Wayne to capture some of the beauty and treachery of our long-awaited winter.

To see the rest of Jack Cantey's photo essay, pick up FWR #71 on news stands now.