I come here now and then to see

How my heart is managing

Life and all its highs and lows

Nights of sorrow, days of gold

As I sit and contemplate

The shadows tell me it is late

Time is fleeting oh so fast

There's less future than what has passed

Shadows lengthen and I sigh

The sun's still radiant in that sky

It seems that though I feel my age

It's warmth upon me gives me grace

As long as I keep looking there

I feel it's joy and know its care

Something about just waiting here

Makes His presence oh so near

Gives me strength to face the night

Teaches me the pow'r of Light

Out beyond the tops of trees

Past the skyline, past the breeze

Dwells the Source of all that's right

As I bask in this delight

This incredible photo is featured on Facebook's site called "Just Breathe".  As a rule, I use my own photography here, but could not resist passing this one on and encouraging my visitors to check them out!  You will enjoy the photography there!  Thanks "Just Breathe", for capturing so much beauty and sharing it with us!

This is me after a day of working a new job, still not understanding quite what I am doing, and having frustrations tightly gripping my craw!  I tend to love the nature of my job - working with people - but there's that computer and paper work....  

Now, I am NOT a natural when it comes to technology.  Not by any means.  In fact, I make computers grow legs and run away when they see me coming!  I'm especially not used to working with spread sheets and with anything other than what MAC offers....which, by the way, they say is more "user friendly" as it relates to creative people like myself, though I have often challenged them.  After they handed me a Dell laptop at my new job, I knew I was in trouble, since trouble follows me - even on the machine I am most familiar with!  

At any rate, today, after having seen clients now for a couple of weeks and fumbling through the paper work each day, I hit a wall!  I was still struggling so much trying to wade through the excel program that my eyes glazed over and my pre-ulceric stomach churned one final time before the lump in my craw oozed right up through my throat and turned into a groan that would have insulted even a hoot owl with laryngitis.  I tried to text and then call my supervisor.  No answer.  I had 30 minutes to finish the paperwork before leaving to see my next client and things were not clicking.  So through bleary eyes and in desperation I sent my notes via e-mail to my boss explaining my predicament, then packed up all technological devices along with their "wireage" and attachments and hit the road to my next destination.  A three-hour appointment that would end with me and my computer having yet another stand off in the front seat of my car!  Once again, I managed to power on all electronics and begin the daunting job of entering data.  For some reason things did in fact come a bit easier this final time, though a meeting with someone who can walk me through is in order soon!  

Yep, that was my day.  8:00 am - 7:30 pm.  Complete with the highs and lows of a thriller movie!  Gonna pull off my boots and try to forget it ever got to me!  Now, ain't that a hoot!?

Looking down that road again

Wondering what's beyond the bend

The only thing I get to see

Is where I've been or wish to be

I pause and ponder how to trust

And yet there is no choice.  I must

Let him lead me by the hand

Grant me faith so I can stand

And take another step today

Blindly let Him make a way

Oft times its dark and I can't see

My hand or foot in front of me

My hope instead is in the One

Who has walked the path I'm on

My faith is weak and how I fall

But His love stays and conquers all

We have been "holed in" now for 3 days due to the ice and road conditions surrounding the very large hill where we live.  Even though there are definite minuses to this situation, I enjoy not having to go to work or deal with outside demands, for sure!  And...I love the time when I can write, read, sit in front of the fire and just take in the silence.  The sparkling icy outside is rather beautiful and greets me each morning with enchanting magic.  I also enjoy hot chocolate, cookies, and any bits of sugary pleasure I can find!  I have concluded that this could be dangerous!  :)  Along with inclement weather comes, gray, cold, drippy days!  It is so very easy to reach for "comfort" food as I curl up in my favorite blanket and throw on another log!  Yep, I've also concluded that I am an addict - of the sweetest kind!  (Well, as it relates to liking sugar!  ha ha)  I found this pic I'd taken in the nostalgic Caledonia Golden Rule General Store a few years ago - made me smile.  I cannot deny my Baby Boomer upbringing....the days of discovering 5 cent Popsicles and Milk Duds.  These were the rewards in which earned me the spare tire and cravings I carry yet today!  And that, my friends, is where I've been this cold, damp January morning!

I often think about the days gone by

And ponder my regrets

Shattered dreams and hopes undone

So hard to forget 

Perhaps I need to shift my sight

Not look upon the "old"

But instead just focus on

Those waving fields of gold

These will be back!  Until then, here's a smile!  :)

Underneath the canopy

Of crystal coated boughs

Fragile chandeliers of ice

Dress each branch with crowns

Diamond colored, glossy, smooth

Shimmering delight

The forest groans with crackling sounds

And I behold the sight

Slippery limbs and frosty leaves

Stiff above my head

And on the floor the carpet green

Colorful Instead

Crusty glaze, it covers all

Holding in its grip

All of nature for awhile

Though it soon will drip

Into the spring when life returns

Hidden tight til then

Inside the frozen crusts of cold

Glassy, creaking limbs