I really like being an optimist. But today, as I looked out the window, I was confronted with a huge, soul crushing sight- the trash truck barging through the snowbank and filling in the path that I had painstakingly kept clean through the past few snowy days. Grr.

[In the photo above my wonderful path continued all the way past the stairs to the stop sign. Now it has been tragically cut short.]

Such is life.