January 3rd, 2009

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The Colors of Winter

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

Quick walk through the garden this morning.  Sleeping plants.  Dead stems and branches.  I pull my shawl tighter around my shoulders.

Cold this morning.  Frosty.

The colors of winter stare at me.  Hundreds of shades of brown.  Almost black.  Wintery whites.  Could be silver if you stand just right.  Some green.  Pretty especially the pale green.

How can three colors be so varied?  Copious thoughts fill my mind — things that should be in my garden journal.  Must work on my nature sketches.  So must my daughter.

In my mind’s eye I see a room gorgeously decorated in just three colors.  A multitude of browns, wintery whites and pale greens.  I want to be there. 

I emerge from the tangle of thoughts of colors and remember my word for 2009.  Clarity.

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