First Snow

Well, it is here. It is beautiful. It is SNOW!
I am looking forward to a day of quiet. Snow makes everything seem more quiet....muffled.
Went out to Shangri La Ti Da for a check. Went out to eat Chinese. Now home.
It just doesn't get any better than this, does it? Slow and peaceful. In from the snow and looking at a new seed/plant catalogue and thinking of the garden to come in the spring. After having read Barbara Kingsolver's book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle I am excited to try some fun plants in the garden this year. Our first garden at Shangri La Ti Da...which is, by the way, already winterized with about a foot of mulch over the two new 4x40 foot beds.
This is the pace I am looking forward to after retirement...time to enjoy and see and appreciate what is around me.
I don't even have all my Christmas done, but I have shed that frustration and anxiety and feel peaceful with what is done already and the wrapping I can do and plans to make for what still needs to be done.
Thank the Lord for this Christmas miracle...
Amen