Feels Like Spring! End of Year Bloggery

It's the Winter Solstice and it's 53 degrees... thank goodness for Climate Change and Global Warming! The funguses are all aglow and the grass hummocks in our swamp are gree. The horse is still grazing (in preference to hay) and friends report forsythia is in bloom. Egads! But I'll still take it over snow any day...

So I stumbled around our big and over to our "island" and snapped pictures in defiance of December. I know, I know; it could change tomorrow.

So could so many other things. Like Mommy is not in such great shape and she is 91 years old. I have been having sleeplessness and anxiety about her death. We all know it will happen sooner than later but you can still never be too prepared even if you are a follower of Nature and accept that everyone/ everything will die. Contemplating lovely saprovores (is that spelled correctly?) that help break down the dead things are a good place to consider life's cycles. Winter should be a tiime of sleeping beauty and there is a splndid confusion in these bright colors and almost "vernal awakening" images. But they're helping me get through these shortest days of the year...