once a place where I was

It is simply a remembrance, and its significance, such as it may be, is just the memory of innocence and simplicity in my life that came to a screeching, violent halt fewer than three years distant. 

According to Eldon, the farm owner, the snow on the ground wasn't all that unusual up there in the high country. It melted before ten in the morning, but the chill stayed until early afternoon when the clouds left.  I remember those days with the clarity of thin air and startling light.