Exploring, Imagining, Hoping

Yesterday I went exploring. I went out into my yard, and hiked through a pine forest to the entrance of a giant ice cavern that had suddenly appeared there since my last hike a few days ago. Faint light scattered in the ice of a giant lake at it's floor, which appeared as a pristine slab of jade. I walked through its expansive domed interior to find an exit into a wintry realm hidden from the outside world. Excitedly, I ran back home and grabbed my cross country skis, but by the time I got back, the cavern had vanished. Maybe I'll find it again sometime, and be able to go cross country skiing for the first time this year.