Snow arrived during the night, and then the temperature rose above zero C. I had a lovely forest walk with Totti – light shifting and no wind.
The first half hour, there was not much mist, but …tangible silence.
Have you ever noticed how the colours – the few colours there are during winter –
seem to stand out in the mist?
With the fading light, you feel like walking inside a movie landscape. And you keep looking for a glimpse of the sky – just to stay real.
And for well known landmarks…
…to keep track of where you are.
In the open landscape, the sight is even worse – luckily the snow reveals my path.
As a farewell of this beautiful day- the light returns for my last 10 minutes of hiking.
The stone fence is as stone cold as it looks, dividing the larch fields that now have lost their soft needles.
But, it is not yet cold enough to stop the flowing water, and turning it into ice –
We are Waiting…
Thursday again. The days and weeks and years rush by – and I am still here. I am very grateful for that. Today is Thanksgiving in the US – and we have much to be thankful and grateful for, even if we do not celebrate this special day in Sweden.
I am grateful for so many wonders in the world.
Being able to walk in the forest, in Nature, which means so much to me.
Being able to see and enjoy our world. From the great panoramas down to spiders’ webs.
I can feel, I can write, I can speak…I can even take pictures of the wonders that surround us…just to keep them with me a little bit longer.
And I can share some of them with great blogging friends, readers and followers – I am so grateful to all of you!
I still have my family, loving parents, and many of my best friends from my childhood…
…even if I know the path is narrowing.
So, Thank you for letting me be born in a free country, with loving parents and good friends. Surrounded by deep forests and open meadows.
I will try my best to be an open-minded, loving and caring person – always.
Everything in life is temporary. I know. But sometimes, we would just give anything to keep that precious moment alive… and we know that we cannot… make it stay. No photos, no written words…nothing is in our power to hold on to it. In our hearts we can keep this moment, maybe, but soon time will change our memories of it… until we do not know what truly happened or what we truly felt.
Ben asks us for a photo that says temporary. Of course our children are the ones who make us feel this ”temporary” the hardest way. But also the seasons do. I go to the forest to make the best of my days, and yesterday, I went just before sunset. A beautiful autumn day had come to an end, and the leaves will all soon fall to the ground, adorning the forest floor. All the beauty made a sadness come over me, and I lay down beneath the thin canopy to think, and to take a photo – this photo. A futile try to make the moment stay, but I believe we both felt the same, my best friend, Totti, and I. Everything is temporary – enjoy every day if you can.
Cheri reminds us of the upcoming Earth Day, and if something or someone needs our love and support, it is her: Planet Earth.
We all have our separate thoughts and interpretations of ”Earth”, and I am thinking… my choice must be a favourite little piece of her. A place where I can cry over all our wrong doings, ponder over life in general and be grateful and happy about the good things in life. A place of beauty, a place for new hope and strength. This must be, a place with a tree. My old trees. Go here for more of our beautiful Planet Earth.
Leya 
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