Sometimes I just love to go to lakeside and listen to nature. Wintertime is a bit desolate, but nature still speaks in the wind and the water. She creates beauty all the time, in every season.

Winter is her time of rest, when all her work takes place deep within all the plants and trees. Preparing for her time of renewal, in the spring. She’s the great architect of our world. And even in the time of sleep and rest she still reminds us she is always here. With the unique shapes of individual snowflakes, to moving water beneath the ice. The fish she still nourishes and all the new growth she plans for her trees.

We may be busy navigating our busy lives with all that entails. But knowing that something so much bigger than ourselves is always working beneath our feet, puts everything in perspective. She is so magnificent and beautiful. She is timeless and will still be here doing all that she does, long after we are gone.