Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays.

12/17/2008

Snow. Looks like a white Christmas. Iron pot hissing this morning on the wood stove. One final ice storm miracle. On Saturday, I went to the store to get a gasket for the stove. Outside there was a small tree totally covered with ice. The tree had these large clumps of small red berries completely encrusted in ice. As I was parking, a flock of large brown birds descended on the tree. They joyfully began chipping the ice off the berries, and having breakfast. You could see that they were happy and energized as they flashed from one clump to another. There was something very festive about the whole event. I went into the shop, and by the time I returned, the birds were gone.

A single red berry
has fallen
on the frost in the garden.
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