Savoring This Day

Hello friends,

Last night, just before dark; it started to snow again.

- Myguy and I decided to go  for a little drive; and enjoy the beautiful evening.  We stopped off at the Mcdonalds drive thru and

    parked across the lot so we could sit back and watch the pretty snow flakes floating 

from  night sky.

Sharing a big order of  chicken nuggets and dipping  salty fries  in bbq sauce

was  a grand feast.

 The Jeep was toasty warm inside and....

 --Casting Crowns ... sang right through  the speakers.

It was ....

a night to savor.  

At first light this morning; 

  cardinals,red wing blackbirds, wrens, sparrows and others

  swarmed the feeders.

 The  blackbirds  reminded  me of the song playing here...

Morning has broken, like the first morning.
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird.
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning,
Praise for them springing fresh from the Word.

 Before things started to melt;

I ran out

to snap a few photos.

Trotting around the garden were 

footprints galore- .

Birds, the fox perhaps,

and bunny hops too.

They had certainly frolicked everywhere!  

Dancing prints-

like a march of joy.

How different  everything appears-

when  snow is

sprinkled

on the usual....

 The garden seemed  happy.

As though heart warmed once again

beneath a soft blanket of  winter white.

 

How much of life I wonder is 

spent  wishing a day was somehow

different  than what it is?

 

How many gifts get  cast aside

missing out 

on this  day's joys?

  I wanted  to stop and 

 gaze  longer.... 

capturing the moments with my camera.

Every chilled  breath of them;

 --all  gifts.

So I set out on a backyard stroll....

looking for more.

--Putting out more seed...

and stepping back to witness the  flutter.

Tea anyone?

Cream or sugar?

I hadn't gotten the sd card from the game camera in several days and 

decided to walk to the woods instead of riding the four wheeler.

Besides; I kinda like to hear the crunching of snow beneath my feet.

No earbuds,

no noise.

Only snow and 

birdsongs.

It even started snowing lightly again.

This set of  big tracks was on my path...

Our dogs had not been out here so it was probably a coyote..

He went the same way I was going.

For a hike through the quiet woods.

Such a pretty day.

Here's a couple photos that were on the card.

It's probably time to start deleting it-

almost 2000 photos of deer, raccoons, coyote, rabbits, possums, a fox,

cardinals, crows, and jays.

All moments most people never even see.  

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