Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

The old limb covered with heavy snow brushed its twigs along the ground. A melancholy strain wound round the bitter hanging notes. I didn’t hear the fearing song for that cold night crack that separates forever the dying from the living, sleeping sap. Frost etched the story on a window pane that night. Spitting, cracking, sculpting, finally melting into dawn. Leaf by leaf and drop by drop the limb let go of its breaking burden-- and bounced back up in the winter sun. Walking along the shadow edge I was caught by the song of the happy bough Maybe I stayed a minute or so, it was cold you see, And even though my spirits lifted in symmetry I was caught that day and called away by the vicissitude of the here and now.

Marcus Garver Park after the first snowstorm 120th and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan 120th and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan

Shimmering in the wind, the dry reeds rattle Rattle, swish Time clatters away with a thud. Drowning in yellow leaves, fall sneaks in through the cracks Torn by the wind.   Harlem Meer after the Storm

The storm uprooted trees, but left the French Conservancy Garden full of chrysantemums

See the Young Man walking?  He is unaware he is passing Hero Tree in Yellow and Green, one of natures masterpieces of sustainable architecture.   Here's Yellow&Green waving in the light.  The lower right branch lost a limb, and a few small branches were lost.  The architecture of trees is amazing!  60-70 mile an hour winds for hours thrashed the trees. Here's Yellow, straight and strong after Hurricane Sandy; upright, bold, wonderful, recovered from last year's blight. Yellow is still wearing some summer green leaves at the top and holds a few yellow leaves that survived the Hurricane Winds.  And don't forget Young Blue, still strong on the window sill.  

This part of Manhattan is quiet,  and only a few trees are damaged and down within a couple of blocks.  Of course Central Park  has damages and losses in the hundreds.  All the parks in the city are closed.. Our New York Kentucky Coffee Trees are safe and weathered the unbelievable wind. Yellow's leaves are almost gone, while Yellow & Green has a broken limb but is otherwise fine! Blessings and love to all those who are suffering. Photos tomorrow!

Yellow tree is bearing up leaves still stuck along the limbs, how did they get so big? Yellow’s just a little thing compared to Yellow & Green. I had a white-light come to me once but I didn’t know at the time, so here I am earthbound and running chasing after second chances. I knew a man who found a sheep that lived three years in a Scotland cave. It could barely walk and talk and graze with so much unsheared wool. I am like a quiet morning, slowly filling the backyards up without a sound, fresh with pitted peaches canned for winter I have nothing to say to the dead anymore with their put-down trumped-up charges. Just let them be, I said once more and I let colors talk to me. East 94th Street one of two New York Kentucky Coffee Trees