01.31.09
Photo: Crystal Trees In Sunlight
I’ve been trying all week to capture the beauty of the ice covered trees, but was never able to. Now that the sun has come back, my husband took this shot this morning. It doesn’t come close to the true beauty, but it’s pretty spectacular all the same. If you look closely you can see the rainbow colors created by the sunlight on the ice. As you can tell, I have nothing better to do than admire the results of our wintry blast. 
01.29.09
Photo: Is It A UFO??
No UFO here. Just more icy tree tree limbs taken at night with a street light behind them. Although speaking of UFO’s, I had an experience with one of those when I was a teen…very strange. May have to write a very ’short’ short story about that some day. Elizabeth
Image copyright Elizabeth Melton Parsons
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01.28.09
Photo: Icy Tree Limbs
Mother Nature sent quite a wintry blast our way and to put it mildly, things are pretty messed up. Look at the thick ice built up on these tree limbs. This is a large sugar maple limb, which normally hangs above my drive and offers lovely shade on hot summer days. Today it’s lying about a foot above the drive, making it impossible to get the car out–should I be idiot enough to want to. Actually we’re under a state of emergency and no one is supposed to be on the roads except emergency vehicles. Elizabeth
Photo copyright Elizabeth Melton Parsons
01.18.09
Letting Go
They say you can’t move on without letting go. Who are THEY and how do THEY know these things? When I hear expressions like that, I always get a mental image of a vast table with these wise and wonderful people sitting around it in their long, dark robes and coming up with all these little gems.
I, like most people, carry around a lot of baggage from the past–some pretty bad, I admit, but some pretty darn good stuff too. So when we let go, do we say goodbye to the good along with the bad? Aren’t they kind of intertwined? Without the bad, can we truly appreciate the good?
I don’t know the answers, but there’s one thing on which I do concur. You can’t wallow in past bad stuff. If you do, you will never do anything but that. When I was twenty-one, I lost my dad, then a few years ago I lost both a brother and my mom. I still grieve for them. I don’t wallow in it, but I did for a while. I ranted, I cursed, I cried…I was so angry and frustrated. I hurt and I felt helpless. Have I let go? I honestly don’t think I have. I still get angry, I still cry at the oddest of times.
How do you let go of those emotions that burrow so deep inside they seem to become a part of your soul? Can you? And should you? A friend of mine told me to pray. I did and do. And yes, God gave me the courage to live with these emotions, but they are still there lurking in the corners.
Have I moved on? What does that mean exactly? I work, I play, I nuture my family, I laugh–is that moving on? I believe it is.
