Anticipating Winter

The leaves crunch beneath my feet as I breathe in the Autumn air and search for remnants of color among all that is brown. I feel like I missed much of Fall this year as I hunkered down in the studio to create. Returning to the woods with my events behind me, I feel a bit of dread over the season ahead. It’s been so warm and dry, but the color has disappeared and I know winter is coming. Yet…

Walking along the road I recall my discoveries in years past, how winter has become a whole new season of discovery. But I’m not feeling it. Really?! Everything is so brown and dead. I’m not sure I will see the magic this year. Yet…

Selecting a dried up stalk of Ironweed, I take my phone and zoom my camera in close on the seed heads and the leaves…and voila, there it is! There is beauty even here.✨

I love life in full color. Brown has never been my favorite. But with all the green stripped away, I see new beauty in the cycle of reproduction. The plant is dried up, having given all its glory to the production of seeds. And while everything looks a bit hopeless at this stage, life is still here, just dormant. When the weather warms and the Spring rains come, this one life will have produced hundreds more. 🤯

So here is my challenge to you should you choose to accept it. 😄 When the winter blues set in, zoom your camera into something small and forgotten by the side of the road and see what magic emerges. I’ll be over here doing the same! 😍