Let's add Winter as the third inevitability to the unholy pair of Death and Taxes. We know we barely left it behind and we know its already kinda there on The Game of Thrones (and it doesn't look pretty). As the temperatures tumble down the sharp cliff of summer toward a fleeting Fall, we know it is only a matter of time before we are forced to confront the winds of winter again.

Winter: almost as cold as taxes and almost as stifling as death...

Unless of course, you can ski and then all is fine....

And it is definitely here in our little story through the countdown to the completion of this 300-week project. This photo is from the last winter, somewhere in Pennsylvania for week #277.