A collected and composed horse chestnut tree in a winter cemetery....
for Theresa, who has some kind of idea that winter is a tolerable season. A season, even, for serenity.
It's feeling all right today. The sun was out and my daughter's college applications are all in the mail, voice audition CDs included. What more could a mother ask? (Well, maybe she could pick up her room... .)
9 comments:
Beautiful picture! Glad everything is going smooth with your daughter's college application. My daughter and I went through a lot of turmoil about her college plans. It's over now. She actually survived her first semester and just started the second one this week.
I'm with you on winter...doesn't it last for about 9 months in New England if I remember correctly????
Oh, what a beautiful, beautiful photograph. I feel a strange sense of calm-exhileration looking at it. Did you know there is such a thing as calm-exhileration? Because that is what winter feels like to me. Whereas summer just feels like too much of everything. :-) This photo represents a stark beauty to be sure; just think of all that life underneath the snow and life and the energy stored in the roots of that gorgeous tree. It is a beautiful, sweet tension that's created between the lifelessness above and the potential of life below. D. H. Lawrence would have loved it. :-)
I appreciate the warmth of the gesture, too, Robin. Thank-you so much, Robin. --Theresa
Pick up her room? A teenager? You gotta be kidding! I can't even wade through the stuff on my son's floor to get to his bed. Just close the door...
What a serenely beautiful photograph. I see what Theresa is saying. Strength, mystery, solidity. But spring is my favorite season, so fresh, so full of promise, so new, so bright and clear. How long now? Only three months (groan),
Vicky
We got our first taste of winter weather this evening--a few snowflakes mixed in with the rain stuck to the ground. Hear tell it might get worse before it gets better. Bleah! I lived with snowy winters for twenty-nine years before I moved to Oregon. Haven't missed it (snow) much. Hopefully, we'll get our one-week winter, and then the crocuses and plum trees will start blooming in late January, and our long spring will have begun. Eat your heart out... (LOL!) Lisa :-]
Well, I see everybody is ganging up on me again! :-)
ah......one day you will long for the clutter of that teenager room.
lovely picture and thoughts.
ckb
i think this may be the most beautiful "serenity" picture yet posted here. i have posted in my journal of my love for winter - and this picture says it all so beautifully. in winter the essence of nature is exposed, the bones of it, the soul of it, the purity of form and structure. fall is my favorite season, but winter runs a close second, with summer coming in last. summer is - as theresa says - too much of it all. too of everything, too loud, too hot, too bright, too overwhelming. thank you for this lovely meditation.
Marigolds! Finally, a comrade!
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