Freshly Fallen Snow

Looking out my dining room patio windows, I marvel at the freshly fallen snow.  Overnight a six inch covering of white has blanketed my yard.  Only yesterday the grass was brown and brittle, to all appearances dead.  In the garden, skeletons of summer’s flowers dance, ghostlike in the wintry winds. The dried grass and flowersContinue reading “Freshly Fallen Snow”

Christmas Gifts

Christmas Gifts Christmas is over.  The presents are open and the wrapping paper thrown away.  At our house the “biggest” gift was our new grandson, Simeon, then just six weeks old.  Everyone wanted to hold him, to touch his oh-so-soft skin. We exclaimed over a smile, and the trusting eyes looking at everything, taking itContinue reading “Christmas Gifts”