This Winter Season
Posted on Wednesday 24 January 2007 at 02:48 in Lifestyle - Post Comment
It's a white world today. Even the air is white with huddling cloud and icy mist. The trees wear gloves of frost, the earth hides sleeping under snow. Every frond of grass, shrub and weed is decorated with a coat that would glitter if the sky could only rise up and push away from the ground.
Not today. It breathes on the ground, whispering nature to stay asleep, keep dreaming. There is nothing to wake for.
The sunflowers form a brown, defeated row in their snow-catching posts, nothing left of their triumphant summer's-end golden and green. The apples trees sleep naked, with their feet carefully covered. The fledgling hedgerows have disappeared under their downy crystalline quilt.
I sit here by the window with a bowl of granola - what else? - and watch the kitten sleeping on the hot-water radiator under the sill. It is such a sleepy day, she can't even hold her head up. Her nose sinks until it carries the weight of her thoughtless, furry head. She's too little to snore, but I bet she will in winters to come.
My thoughts turn - I tackle a recalcitrant pre-teen and his math, I school myself while the children learn. And then I'm back here at the window, looking at the white. White, and black tree legs, and hazy tan stubble across the way. The dun road, stretching away to places too well known. The world has curled in on itself and become small, familiar, housebound, like the cat on the windowsill. But I have other horizons. This is the season of the inward world.
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Posted by BlueApple on Wednesday 24 January 2007 at 03:13 - Link
That is a beautiful picture! Enjoy your quiet time!
J
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Posted by morningsunshine on Wednesday 24 January 2007 at 03:30 - Link
what a lovely picture... too bad we don't have enough snow to make a snowball!
snow
Posted by hanemlee on Wednesday 24 January 2007 at 03:42 - Link
That's a pretty picture! We had snow a few days ago, but it's all melted by now.
emy
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