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Sometimes, especially in winter, when days are short and darkness steals the light, I forget to be thankful. I know God gave us each heavenly body to bring warmth to the earth and to light the night sky (Genesis) and that is a wondrous gift in itself. We've encumbered many dreary days this month so I was totally shocked when BLUE SKIES appeared this week for one solitary day. The color was so beautiful, so awesome for a freezing winter day where the water fountains had frozen and the top of the pond was nothing but a shell of ice.
It was barely 19 degrees when I went out, trusting in the blue of the skies to get me through the day so I could go places I needed to be that day. I took the sky bridge from our apartment building to Anthem Park next door and that is where I passed the ice on the fountains and pond before catching the bus. Seeing it, I almost gave up on my needed journey that day and returned home instead of to the bus stop another block away.
Even though I was dressed warmly, the air was brisk but the blue skies. that followed me everywhere I traveled, kept placating my wandering mind with warmth. I told myself to get a photo to remind me that all my days are not dreary and so I did. There was not a cloud to be seen. What a blessing! I told myself that it is silly to just take a photo of a blue expanse so as I was standing at the bus stop waiting to be chauffeured home with my bags of groceries, I spotted this bare tree, just begging to be in one of my photos. Ü I was too close to it to get the entire tree AND the blue sky which was the point of taking the photo so I decided on a close up of the top of the tree touching that almost forgotten color this winter. . .
Yes, blue skies on a winter day is indeed a blessing! Winter skies showed themselves again and possibly the snow I have been praying and hoping for all winter will arrive later today. It would be another blessing for me!
15 comments:
Clear blue sky on a winter day is a blessing indeed!
Hope you have more of them in the week to come.
It sure was cold, Paulie! But that blue is magnificient. I agree. God bless your week.
I have NEVER met anyone as enamoured with cold winter days! I actually admire you for that... for although NOTHING makes me smile more than big white flakes of snow, the deep cold and I became sorta enemies a while back. :)
Happy BYB Sunday, and have a great week ahead Paulie!! :)
I prefer blue skies on a warm, summer day. Are there levels of blessings?
Enjoy the week ahead.
A blessing indeed! I know if all we had was sunshine and blue skies, we'd begin to take it for granted. I'm thankful you got out anyway.
Mama Bear
What a wonderful post! You remind me that God's blessings are all around!
We expect blue skies here tomorrow--when the six or eight inches of snow stops falling. You sould be doubly blessed--LOL. We may go snowshoeing on the pathway this afternoon.
I'm happy to read that you're truly seeing the beauty in the so called ordinary...in truth, everything is extraordinary and precious and a blessing! Happy BYB Sunday!
It has been cold, cloudy and rainy for the past week. Yesterday, the sun came out and it reached 70 degrees. It was a blessing indeed.
We haven't had many blue sky days here either but I know spring is just around the corner.
We had a wonderful day like that today - such a blessing after all the rain and gloom.
Happy BYB Sunday.
Wow that's cold! You know, I went out today and saw blue in the sky for the first time in a week and thought how nice it was. It is a blessing!
Your pictures are pretty!
I definitely prefer blue skies before grey ones (so why do I live where I do?)
Thank you for you nice comments! I think the pattern is meant to be a snowflake, but that is only the opinion of a humble man in these matters ;-)
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