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Our Winter Garden

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Our summer season’s swiftly gone

deserted by both bees and blooms

Now frost abides biting and cold

within each of our garden rooms

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Our winter morning awakens gray

we rise to see its icy glaze

upon the leaves that still remain

in the garden from our younger days

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Our bodies do betray our minds

yet souls remain as newly born

They age not like the flowering trees

in the garden now bare and forlorn

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Our spring shall not return to us

least while we walk upon this earth

But let’s enjoy what beauty’s left

in the garden of our earthly birth

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Our autumn’s fallen to the ground

covered with winter’s whitest sheet

but it’s not our final resting place

for in God’s garden our hearts He keeps.

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Wendy/2014

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The snow we had received,

just before Christmas,

 has now melted under the wash of winter rains.

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When we have had a clear night the temperature drops;

 so when I take my little dog out in the morning,

I take frost pictures (as he goes about his business in the dog run).

At about the time my fingers are ready to freeze off,

he barks and we return to the warmth of the house.

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My children are longing for summer.

I don’t blame them as the sun hides behind a blanket of gray

for much of our temperate rain forest winter.

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Beauty can be found in all seasons…

including the seasons of our lives.

We just need to be open,

thankful,

and still enough to notice any loveliness around us.

Spring will come soon enough.

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These snowdrops are popping up,

 already,

in anticipation of spring!

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All Seasons Blessings ~ Wendy

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He has made everything beautiful in its time.

He has set eternity in the hearts of men;

yet they cannot fathom what God has done

from beginning to end.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

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