Variety is the spice of life

On my way to work this morning I experienced a variety of weather.

It was cloudy and misty when I left my house.  Then a ray of sunshine shown on the mountains and drenched them in brilliant red.  This same beam of sunshine also caught the rising fog and mist and created a short but beautiful rainbow.  I wanted to stop and take a picture but knew as soon as I would, the scene would change again.

It got misty again then rained.  As I crested the last mountain I was greeted with rain mixed with snow and the ground had a powdered sugar dusting of snow.

I’ve lived my entire life with four seasons and I love it.  I just happened to see all those seasons this morning within a 25 minute drive to work.

Spirit

For some reason I am in the Christmas spirit.front-door-1.2011

You may think I’m nuts for saying that but the past 10-12-14 years, I have not had much of the Christmas spirit in me.  Last year I put a wreath on the door and hung out the garland on the front porch but no other decorating inside until I found out some friends were coming over.  I rushed to The Barn two days before Christmas and bought a 6 foot tall “primitive” tree at 40% off.  Used a few choice ornaments from my collection and called it Christmas.  Bah humbug.

While I’m in the Christmas decorating spirit, I better do something about it!