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January Freeze
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January Freeze The holidays are over, the ornaments, and tinsel are gone, christmas trees have been either recycled or trashed, and now our world is back to it's normal drab wintery season. Well, wait a minute, not so drab in some areas. A blanket of white snow can light up the view pretty good. I recently came home from a little jaunt to my second home farther north. When I left here, there was no snow. When I got there, they had about 8 inches, and a 4' snow bank to get over or thru to get down the driveway. That wasn't so pretty. Once I got thru and back inside and warmed up, I opened the drapes to the front that over looks a beautiful lake. Now what a sight that was. Pristine white, glistening like frozen diamonds, twinkling and blinding. The cold was frigid freezing your nose, and toes if you stood out there very long, just to remind you that you had to go back inside to a warm crackling fire and some hot cocoa. Each season we have, seeing as we get all 4 here, and sometimes all 4 in a matter of a few weeks, if you stand around too long!! but each of them has it's own beauty. I am a particular fan of summer with all it has to offer. Swimming, water skiing, picnics, bbq's and warmth. I do love warmth!!. The fall, when it comes dresses the countryside in the glorious shades of oranges, yellows, browns, trees that are now in full color, with just a tinge of coolness in the air, reminding one that it will soon be cider time, hot or cold, and hot donuts.!!!. The colors in the trees are like ladies at a ball gown each festooned with a different shade, or multiple shades, waving gently in the wind. Spring is the anticipated season, to watch the snow slowly disappear, days begin to warm a bit more each day, and you watch the trees and see small bumps that you know are buds, holding green leaves folded gently inside, growing larger each day until one morning you wake up and they have burst open and the world is dressed in fresh green leaves, and flowers begin to peek their sleepy heads out of the ground. A rebirth of the earth to say the least. When we are in the coldest months, January, and February, I often wonder what other people do for entertainment, or to spend their time waiting for their favorite season. What they do to stay warm during the freeze. I can sit in my second home, and prop my feet up and just gaze at the frozen tundra of lake and landscape, watch the birds soaring, looking for a food source, see tracks in the snow along the road and forest where deer and rabbit have wandered, and if lucky get to see one or the other. Best of all, is when it is evening, and the snow begins to fall softly, huge puffy flakes, almost the size of snowballs, and the world is silent, with the stars twinkling over head, the wind just blowing gently, and the silence of the world is so silent you can hear your own heart beat. Just you the snow and the world. Lady |
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4/2/2008 8:15 pm |
You are certainly a woman with tremendous insight and a gift for writing and expression. Just reading your words here brings back memories of my childhood, spending summer and winter vacations in the UP with my friends. The same beautiful scenery and quiet peace all around you. so quiet you can hear the snow falling. Thanks for the jog to my memory!
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