minus 10

Summer's remnants wear white top hats and the snow is crunchy underfoot.

drizzle

Anticipated snow drips

from the sky in endless drizzle

on an above zero day.

Yet, as drops clutch tightly

on summer's remnants

dreary turns to dazzle.

I'm left wondering if there are always these elements of beauty even when life is gray and when drizzle falls. When promised mantles of white seem to be exchanged for mud tattered rags. When hearts are gray and souls are dark and hope seems to belong to a previous season.

Tales of troubles, that are completely beyond my comprehension and experience, move through my mind and I wonder if I could still see it... still see the beauty.

God promises it.

frost on window

Loveliness can be found at home

above a sink of soaking dishes

as the rising sun shines in

and children chatter at the table.

gladiolus

oops, bulbs not dug up

unlikely

They have succumbed to the new season

and hang their heads in submission

yet their colour remains vibrant.

Valiant little reminders of summer.

December 7

Sometimes there are no words to share,

just a pleasing image of a field

of lines and texture and contrast.

more snow