November came in like a angry satanic demon looking for frigid revenge. Arctic thorns of ice cut stinging skin deep wounds. Cruel blasts of wind tossed the sorrel and carrot colored leafs into devil dog funnels that spun like colored pencil shavings in a blender at you feet. Boy Dog and Lucky Boy stuck to my side like new born pups to their mother. They did not want to forgo the comforts of the cabin for a midnight ridge prowl.  Snow flew in eye level sheets like carpets of  frozen cotton shreds never touching down to rest. Blinding. Made me think of another highly underrated songwriter Hoyt Axton and his song Snowblind Friend. Steppinwolf cut the song on their Steppinwolf 7 album released in 1970. Great song with a ton of classic lines. Always been one of my favorites.

Snowblind Friend

Hoyt Axton

You say it was this morning when you last saw your good friend

Lyin' on the pavement with a misery on his brain

Stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall

Of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall

He only had a dollar to live on 'til next Monday

But he spent it all on comfort for his mind

Did you say you think he's blind?

Someone should call his parents a sister or a brother

And they'll come to take him back home on a bus

But he'll always be a problem to his poor and puzzled mother

Yeah he'll always be another one of us

He said he wanted heaven but prayin' was too slow

So he bought a one way ticket on an airline made of snow

Did you say you saw your good friend flyin' low?

Flyin' low dyin' slow

You say it was this morning when you last saw your good friend

Lyin' on the pavement with a misery on his brain

Stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall

Of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall

He only had a dollar to live on 'til next Monday

He said he wanted heaven but prayin' was too slow

So he bought a one way ticket on an airline made of snow

Did you say you saw your good friend flyin' low?

Dyin' slow, flyin' low

Did you say you saw your good friend flyin' low?

Dyin' slow, flyin' low, blinded by snow.

Steppinwolf cut another Hoyt Axton anti drug song, The Pusher,  on their Steppinwolf album released in 1968.

Made famous by my all time favorite movie, Easy Rider.