Winter Holiday at the Lake

Bitter nippy cold greeted us this Solstice time

out-door life required some extra attention

to preparation and provision

I've come to a lakeside

Catholic Church

to venerate the Nativity

to warm up my body and soul

 Our Lady of Lourdes

I'm in a suitably prayerful state

Locked-up tight

 

As in "you hope"

it's open

Outdoors worship

for me this day of Noel

Two leashes for this canine

People bundle up and brave the cold

Chillsville

Ducks asleep on the frigid water

If it is possible

to do so

I love them deeply

Into the entanglement

I'm holy here

Visionary trees

in Lakeside Park Garden

Mimetic morphism

Purple frilly kale

Water and air

 is life

Psychedelic Oaks

Rainbow shard

I gleaned for the garden

and ate every bite

FAIRYLAND

 Can you handle it?

So many kids the old lady

who lives in a shoe

didn't know what to do

Mosaics of Fairyland attractions

 

Ashtray for burnt-out kids

Ultra green grass of 

a rainy December

just outside Fairyland

Two cool coots

they winter here in profusion

My darling little diving fowl

don't even know his name yet

 I found this somewhat worn

but warm and lightweight shawl

at Fisherman's Wharf last year

and left it at the estuary on Xmas day

It's still keeping mankind warm

An empty apartment

if I lived here I'd be home now

shudder to think what the rent would be

Nice around here

but not that nice

Time to go inside
for a strong cup of coffee

 to eat my candy Xmas tree

December 2016