Bringing in the Green

When you consider how much of the landscape, as we see it today, will change tremendously within the next week or two, each remaining leaf of color or flower demands more focus. There will no longer be an awning of yellow and orange over the morning window; the swirling art prints formed by newly fallen leaves upon the stream surface will flow away. Scenes will be brown and thin and gray.

And yet evergreens remain. Exposed soon in the cold wind blowing, their fragrance invites us to bring them inside, a promise of blossoms in spring.