November 18 and at 8:00 am there are, quite definitively,
great big snowflakes drifting down and settling in the garden
on the last of the red and gold leaves,
on the deer that make their way tentatively across the creek
and pause, frequently, adjusting to their new reality.
This week I find that my earlier reluctance
to let go the gloriously warm, lengthy fall
just slipped away.
Perhaps it was completing the outdoor tasks of tending the garden,
putting away the lawn chairs, cushions, the tomato cages.
Nature responds to the season,
changing in its own dignified, fading way, settling into rest and renewal.
So, I too, now know that it is time,
it feels just right!
Let’s all relish the beauty, stillness, depth and celebration as winter begins.
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