Winter Weather

We all hate days like this. It's cold, wet, gray, and the roads are treacherous. These crappy winter mornings are incredibly persuasive to those of us who would rather stay in bed. I feel the same way as everyone else on days like this. However, driving home from work this morning, I was slapped in the face with something that I would not normally have noticed. In the tension of poor driving conditions and my desire to get home, I nearly missed the incredible beauty of the trees with their blanket of ice and snow. It's the simple things like this that we overlook it in our haste to live our lives. Take a sec and enjoy it now, because in a couple of days it won't look like that anymore. That's the beauty of it-- its fragility and its temporary nature make it precious. I try to remember to keep my eyes open. I guess I'm doing an okay job.