Messengers of Love...

my afternoon meditation is usually outdoors...

even when the cold causes me to bundle warmly...

but today my old bone's protest led me here...

to be seated in supplication

upon sitting i noticed seven brilliant red cardinals

in the bush directly out this view...

 more in the curly willow tree...

even more perched on the lady banks...

i have often heard it told that cardinals herald

the visit of a lost loved one...

if so... i had much company today

 

as usual..i spent this time sitting quietly...

open eyed...

drinking in life with all my senses... 

accompanied the entire forty minutes

by these messengers...

 

i was truly blessed to be surrounded this day

with so much love...

and i 

thank

 

YOU...

decorations of red........

snow! snow! snow!

we usually get....MAYBE....2 inches of snow a year...

this is the second big snow for us here in the midlands

of south carolina....about six inches.

now i know lots of you are probably laughing about our "big snow"

but...really...we're just not equipped for it here.

it was nice having a couple of days off work....yeah...that happens here!
i spent most of my outside time feeding the birds....
and my cat....so he didn't try to eat the birds....
what i enjoyed most about this snow...
sitting in my studio and watching these beautiful
red cardinals....like decorations...in the
snow covered trees.....