which means there is no sun, little if any wind, not much temperature change, and today is the first day all winter that the thermometer hasn't topped thirty degrees. Which isn't so bad, really. It was just below twenty degrees this morning when I got up (a half hour early, for some reason). The birds are mostly holding in position. (Still lots of eagles roosting on Foundation Island - and plenty of ducks and geese in the river.) A flock of juncos flew into and out of one of my spruce trees today - a bird I particularly enjoy watching. And there were lots of hawks on the way to (but not on the way back from) PT.
All of which is to say - no photos today. No light, nothing close when I could get close, and little to no incentive to go outside! (Chilly is not my favorite temperature.) And, quite frankly, today is the first day of this blog that I didn't see something I really wanted to capture on camera. That's not to say there was nothing of beauty - it just wasn't close enough for me to reach.
Which is worthy of thought, in and of itself. If I am nourished by beauty (and I am - thankfully I define it broadly), how am I fed on those days when I can't reach the table? A friend of mine, who also blogs, wrote about fasting today. Perhaps that's what these days are like - a fast - reminding me of the ultimate Beauty, which is God, which I can never own. As we hear in the Chronicles of Narnia, "He's not a tame lion" - he isn't there whenever we want, for whatever we want. But God is, above all things, good. God is, above all things, present, even when we cannot see. (Ask this woman who has difficulty seeing - I will tell you - still God is present!) So, a fast from the beauty that so often surrounds me can be used to redirect my attention to the Beauty that continuously holds me, even when I cannot see.
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