Saturday, March 3, 2018

“Our Blogs Wrote Themselves...”

I uttered as we took a look at the scene yesterday morning. What a storm it was! (Of course, I was most grateful for the day off, creating the coveted three-day weekend.) What astonished me most though was the change throughout the day as the sun appeared following the foot of snow that dropped overnight from Thursday into Friday. As quickly as it came, it went (at least some of it.) Check it out. This is the view around 7:15 yesterday morning.





The deer were clearly rummaging for the apples we put out for them:

And, it appeared as though we had white birches in our backyard! (That’s what happens when the heavy snow drops while the winds gust.)

But, here is the astonishing part. See our sister, St. Scholastica in the morning:


And the same photos taken about six hours later:


As for (what I remember to be in the summer months) the Rose of Sharon:


Wow! What a day! See what the sun can do!

Let us walk in the holy presence.

Pax in Terra: A Meditation from Pema Chödrön

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