Decoration

It’s that time of year, the holiday decorations are going up,

everywhere I look there are twinkling lights and sparkles and,

with just-perfect timing, snow.

Yesterday nature decorated the outside.

We've already taken care of the inside.

Dancing snowflakes flitted, slowly drifting down


in grays and blues

that shifted into white

on the sleeping beds of summer.

Jack Frost painted the windows while we slept.

Soon, I will be dreaming of green, because I will miss it.

Soon, I will long for color in my little corner of the world.

Soon, I will grow tired of the cold and wish to feel the sun on my face.

But before that I will enjoy the sparkling lights


and the scent of pine


as I fill the house with pretty things

and love and gratitude

and giving.

But this morning

there is this outside my living room window,


reminding me to stop every so often
and

breathe in the white stillness.