Sparkles

I tried to post on Nov. 23, before Thanksgiving, but the browser was giving me trouble. So I am doing an old and new post. November days have drifted towards winter into December. When we wake up in the morning everything is glistening with frost. It sparkles up the otherwise montones of the landscape. Princess pine is flourishing and here and there a frozen leaf of unidentified green. Just a little over two weeks until the Solstice...counting the days.
We had a light snow at the beginning of the week and a coyote left her tracks straight up the driveway.

From November 23rd:

We return from warmer climes back to the pond. Someone took our Beatitude Pond sign in our absence or the wind carried it away. In case, it is nowhere to be seen. Should we put a new one up and have a second blessing?

Since our return on Nov. 18th, it is has been unseasonably cold. We are already packing ourselves into our hats, multiple layers, mittens, heavy socks, long underwear etc…items we thought we wouldn’t have to wear until December. Slowly we are acclimating to the new temperatures.

Today, I picked a winter bouquet….grasses, goldenrod gone white, along with the joe pie weed….variations on beige and brown. Earth tones.

Lindley said he prefers the snow, it makes the landscape look more dressed up. There has been snow, but just a dusting here and there in the crisp air.