Graced By Frost

by Rory Siegel

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Graced By Frost

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Rory Siegel

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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

Gilda Radner

I wanted to come back and add a comment on this image since several lovely people have mentioned to me recently how much they like it. That, and seeing it matted and framed in person for the first time while preparing for my local Farmer's Market, took me back to the morning I "saw" this wonder...and a contemplation of just what it was that it conveyed.

It was one of those sunny, frosty, very early mornings...my favorite and usual time for a walk. There is something truly magical about that time of day, just after dawn, when the newly risen sun is kissing the earth with it's first warming rays of light. Not quite warm enough yet to melt the frost, but just enough to make it sparkle. The freezing cold air, vivacious chirping of awakening birds, and the special quality of this light has such a healing and inspiring effect on me. It's as if the whole world is being born anew on such a morning...and I am filled with hope.

On that morning as I walked and contemplated the amazing beauty of this earth, something caught my eye and looking down, I saw this one seemingly perfect leaf laying on a bed of frosted dead ferns. It brought to my mind a....(to be continued...lol!)

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November 11th, 2012

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