Monday, December 21, 2009

Colors of December

This has been inspired by Sue over at Life Looms Large. These aren't the colors I expected to be showing this time of year, but it is what it is. That goes for my picture taking ability too. ;-) It's not the greatest. Rather than caption each picture, I'm giving you the whole lot of them together to see. There is a snap of a lovely little critter trail through the undergrowth, a long shot of the top of my barn, complete with red fox whirligig, heavy dew on Ponderosa pines, and a lovely purple and pink sunrise, or at least what passed for sunrise yesterday. Even past 8:00 am yesterday it was a quiet, dark and dewy morning, dense with smells of damp earth, hibernating worms, cedar, fir and pine trees. Everywhere I stopped to take a picture I threw my gloves down, a jarring royal blue against the never ending backdrop of greens and rust and jewel like drops of water waiting to fall from the trees and withered blades of grass. Off to join others and descend into the earth, into what I imagine, as a never ending tangle of roots holding up my universe. All thirsty for the wet bounty above.

If I forget myself at this time of year, remove the barriers of body and preconception, I swear I can feel the earth writhe and struggle beneath my feet. A hundred million tendrils, each growing at an almost imperceptible rate, moving ever outward to lay the underground in a spiders web of infinite battles won in mere millimeters. All is silent and dormant or dead looking above, a fine slight of Mother Natures hand. While most Decembers are about sky and air and whiteness, a cold melting buffer from the grounds endless strife. This December is about earth, dark, rich and mysterious.











9 comments:

Life Looms Large said...

Beautiful and poetic!!

Your thoughts on the forest seem particularly apt today - the solstice!

Thanks for participating!! I really like your photos and the glimpses of the world around you!!

Sue

Julie said...

The pictures are just beautiful!

Merry Christmas!

Cindie said...

Wonderful pictures and incredible writing. Have you ever thought about writing a book?

charlotte said...

Beautiful photos and lovely colors!

Margreet said...

Theresa,
Lovely photos and much more colour than we are having just now with all the snow :-)
But not just the photos, the writing too, all very enjoyable!
And thanks to Sue this is a great way of getting us all connected!
Margreet

bspinner said...

Very pretty photos!!!!

Sharon said...

Beautiful. I love those images you have chosen, especially the cuddled pine cone. Sue has given us a very fun game!

Theresa said...

Glad you all got past my not so great photos and enjoyed our wee bit of Oregon December.
Cindie, thank you for the compliment. Nice to know that even if my pics are poor the text does a good job of support. As to a book, it might be fun but I am stumped about anything I might put to paper that is book worthy.
Margreet & Sharon, YES! Sue has come up with a grand
idea, although I fear my next 4 or 5 months will all look quite similar! ;-)

Leigh said...

Great shots. They truly are colors of December.