12.2.16 Now in this time

Now it's growing cold, and all the people in the neighborhood who used to sit out are inside. 

Now, all the hard-working farmers toil best they can outside, and then back in their barns, repairing and fixing. 
Now, the bicyclists are finishing up, before snow begins to pack the ground. 

Now, the older people at the corner house no longer sit out morning and evening. Nor the man alone now, whose kids come often and with his Boxer, sit out beside the house, by the garden.

Now in this time of winter rest and restoration, we pull close our modern day hearth.