Mindfulness Challenge Day 26 Haiku -- Calm Before the Storm

I live in New England. In New England it snows in the winter. Sometimes it snows ALOT in the winter. Let's take a collective breath and realize that we WILL be snowed in for a few days, but we WILL dig out, and spring WILL arrive this year. Sometimes it is easier to embrace the "what is" and not fight it.

Calm Before the Storm

Calm before the storm

Preparations have been made

It is what it is

Mindfulness Challenge Day 24 Haiku -- Secret Garden

An overnight snow changed the landscape into a winter wonderland.

Secret Garden

Our secret Garden

Patiently waiting for spring

Blanketed by snow

Mindfulness Challenge Day 2 Haiku --Winter Trees

Driving through the mountains of Pennsylvania this morning, I noticed the stark symmetry of the bare trees, sculptural in their majesty.

Winter Trees (Haiku #2)

Trees bare for winter

Dark skeletal silhouettes 

Proud, austere beauty

Day 30 Mindful Moments Challenge

Tree sculpture...noticing the structure of the trees, like clothes hangers for leaves.

Day 27 Mindful Moments Challenge

A beautiful sunset today, pinks, purples and oranges glowing in the winter sky.

Day 26 Mindful Moments Challenge

Soup simmering on the stove, comfort food that soothes the body, mind and spirit on a chilly Sunday.

Day 24 Mindful Moments Challenge

Once hidden by leaves and now exposed to the elements, once home to a family. Loved to look up and see this reminder of warmer days.

Day 20 Mindful Moments Challenge

Paperwhite narcissus, an intoxicating scent. An interesting intersection of the reality of winter and the promise of spring.

 

Day 15 Mindful Moments Challenge

Looking outside this morning the lawn sparkled like glitter, a fleeting moment that disappeared as the sun warmed the grass. Grateful that I didn't miss it.

Day 7 Mindful Moments Challenge

During this time of frigid cold weather in the north, I am very mindful of icicles -- their beauty and their precarious nature. Are they a suspended moment -- liquid paused in time?

Day 6 Mindful Moments Challenge

A mindful cup of tea on a foggy, rainy day, watching the snow melt before my eyes.

Day 5 Mindful Moments Challenge

Bright sun, blue shadows, white snow piled high...very grateful to be comfortably warm and looking out at the winter tableau.

Day 4 Mindful Moments Challenge

Looking up at the sky as I mindlessly loaded grocery bags into my car trunk, I was struck by the beautiful symmetry of a jet's contrail perfectly bisecting the bright blue winter sky...an unexpected mindful moment in a parking lot. What was your mindful moment today?

Day 3 Mindful Moments Challenge

Today's mindful moment...The juxtaposition of a tropical hibiscus bloom in my warm house while looking outdoors to see a landscape covered with snow today helps me understand why conservatories were so popular in Victorian times.

Haiku Rally #11 November Snow

In the northeast we woke up to snow showers -- a harbinger of winter when I am still savoring autumn.

 November Snow

Silent snowflakes fall

Disappear as they touch earth

Autumn to winter