A Winter Diary, On a Florida Key, The Trailer Park, Spring and My Day Summary and Analysis

White provides details on a week's activities during January 1941. These activities range from plowing out his driveway with a new homemade plow to taking his son to the doctor in a faraway town. The family cannot return home due to a big snowfall and seeks shelter at Mrs. Wilson's rooming house in the village of China. The Whites return home the next day and find their land covered in a picturesque snow setting.

In On a Florida Key, White writes his column from a beach cottage painted tropical colors and on whose floor sand settles in under a straw mat. White ponders the irony of an orange which is stamped "Color Added" and thinks it...