morning, oh so lovely after a snowfall

These January days give us dark winter mornings, except on a morning like today, after a snow fall when the white crystals of water called snowflakes transform everything and make you exclaim as you open the door, Oh!   In the face of the crisp yet soft beauty, you forget that it will have to be shoveled away as some point in the day.  You trudge gratefully through drifts not worried that the sun might not shine today through the clouds blowing off Lake Michigan.   And if the sun were to appear, it would rise just behind the lighted windows of the house, as if in answer to its beckoning glow.

Mellow Yellow for ABC Wednesday

It is great to be greeted by the mellow yellow of the kitchen windows as we trudge through the early dark and then gathering light of winter mornings in Michigan.  Lake effect snow came again yesterday undoing the browns opened up by the rains of New Year's Eve and Day.

I was honored to host Y-day on ABC Wednesday, but I forgot to post that great song of my youth, YaketyYak by the Coasters.  Here is an out take version from You Tube.
And the origin of Mellow Yellow by Donovan also comes from later in my youth (i.e. I was still under 30!)  Hear it now on You Tube.

And please enjoy more Y blogs on ABY Wednesday!

a slice of sky

A typical rural view when wandering the roads in southwest Michigan.

Seeds of spring in January

Always looking for the glow of life in a winter woods!

A new year's wish

May the new year bring you sun-filled days with a seat in the shade! 
This sun-filled day was six months ago and on Lake Michigan about fifty miles due west as the crow flies from Fabius.