a short morning surprise

We're still hoping for a White Christmas. It's been rainy and dreary..

though I must say I appreciate this morning's bit of sun and a temperate 7 degrees C.

"and the dawn came up like thunder"

 

a little research, and I learn that, though I first heard this from the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz, he was, in fact, quoting it from Rudyard Kipling's poem, Mandalay.

my Hot Pop Queen of Hearts

in prismacolor pencil crayons

 

have a lovely advent to the holidays, snow or not, Christmas or not, holidays or not,

it's all the same really; it's life, precious life

 

be grateful and you will find what lays beneath the surface