Frosty Days

(from a walk around the block…)

We’ve had a whole string of frosty days… both first and second snow have fallen.

But best of all is the frost--

--that teams with Sun’s brilliance to turn grass to diamond-studded spears

and grace things long dead with crystalline beauty…

Turned earth lies like frozen crater fields housing frosted treasure.

Once-sodden leaves now shuffle crisp and fragile underfoot.

The chard is clad in ermine.

And every seedy head has become a marvel…

Frost, in killing, beautifies.

--LS

“For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.” II Cor.4:11