March 28, 2012

Oh the sky is beautiful this morning, shades of rose and pearl pink and orangey red, huge lavender clouds, places where just a hint of blue shines though.  The drama of so much going on, definitely a change in the weather coming.  I can't see the actual sun for the purple and hyacinth clouds, but I am sure it would be red!  Some mornings it pays to get up to see what is outside your window, as it does not last long.  I got Mikayla's camera from the counter and went out to take a picture of the sky, but I think it must be out of battery as I could not get it to work.  Still, it probably would look nothing like it does just standing on the back porch watching it change.  Already the glow is fading and the blue and gray of clouds is taking over.
 
Now, having spent time looking for a poem, the sky has turned gray, darkening, lowering until it seems like a wrinkled canvas making a canopy overheard.  The clouds continue to pile up and the sun, up now and occasionally visible, makes strobes of light between under the edges.

Some Glad Morning

One day, something very old
happened again. The green
came back to the branches,
settling like leafy birds
on the highest twigs;
the ground broke open
as dark as coffee beans.

The clouds took up their
positions in the deep stadium
of the sky, gloving the
bright orb of the sun
before they pitched it
over the horizon.

It was as good as ever:
the air was filled
with the scent of lilac
s and cherry blossoms
sounded their long
whistle down the track
It was some glad morning.

Joyce Sutphen

It sure is very old, this returning of the green, the ground breaking open to all this green life.  We don't have lilacs here, I think it's too warm for them, but we have some ornamental cherry trees, and the early purple of the redbud tree.  I like the idea of scents whistling, they sure do get your attention, and in awhile we will have that most heady scent . . . honeysuckle.  The jasmine at Dawn's house is about bloomed out now but its fragrance still lingers and promises more.  And, yes, it is some glad morning this morning.  All sun and cloud and green, all continuing to bless the world.