The snow fell
before the lake froze
The sun rose
and for a surprise
I found myself awake
and my camera
not hiding
and the battery charged
Now everyone can see
My tiny lake
Burandt's Lake
My tiny town
Waconia, Minnesota
This is why I stay
in this cold storage locker?
Really?
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Really pretty Mary..
HUGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
For one odd moment I thought the bare tree was a palm tree, and it felt so surreal. Beautiful.
You might want to increase the size--just go in to edit, click on the HTML button and change width from the default 285 to 460 or 480. The height will adjust accordingly. Just a thought!
Are you a big fish in a little pond? I like the view where you are. Can't do cold anymore myself I don't think. It isn't where you live but who you live with tho.
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there is something oddly tropical about your winter lake,
dear lady, but that is hardly surprising,
now that i think of whose lake it is.
as for why you stay,
well...if a gal has a lake,
she should be happy.
Every gal should get a lake.
Well..not every gal...only the good ones...
I am sure Mr. Ume would come in his Giant Futuristic
Bulldozer with some of his OWS pals and
expand that lake for you, if you
gave him the word.
Just be grateful
your pictures aint
fuzzy , like that other
old gentlman's...the psalmist, u
know who i mean...blue blurry boy, haw!
We could cook, nap, skinny dip, take walks, and no kiss?
I'm so computer idiot that Snippy the Grammar Dog bark.
I get help cutting and posting. I just found out `bout madam.
I never missed Minnesota more than when I lived in Phoenix. A tepid Christmas never appealed. Christmas should be cold, and Minnesota has the Northern Lights which are worth the burn of frostbite to gaze and gawk and awe at.
Minnesota is heaven if you have ever lived there, and then moved away.
Home is where your heart is.
R
Thank you Snippy and Zanelle, I now know 2 ways to make a photo bigger.
~R~
R♥
Lezlie
I think Rhoda Morgenstern said she moved to Minneapolis from New York because it's cold. She thought she'd keep.
We all keep in these parts.
Stunning photo, gorgeous view.
I feel very much drawn to the solitary seclusion that we find in the upper midwest where there is an extreme of separateness -- the beautiful irony that it intensifies the moment. We use this in our stories, where emotion may be understated between the characters; the blast of wind and rain, the portent of bridges being out and havoc in each dark move, creating more stress, discord.
The warmth is there, too. This is captured in your picture, the impact of tender words that exhale time, truth and what you know,expect. We know that winter is to be endured, but it is something that we stay with, having become a part of us, the cold air, mean winds and ice that threatens. OK, you can avoid it, those from CA,AZ, et al. We understand perfectly.
But we know the strategy of placing our tongue at the roof of our mouth so that our breath of the iron cold will not blast into our lungs, heart: we know to keep this hearth warm for our meanings drawn out to etch palm trees, golden clouds and sun and time right there to be tasted, savored; trusted always.
I am counting on it being for the poem not the photo.
Happy as a Palm Tree in winter!!!
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let's step into the rowboat beautiful
morning for a row
isn't it?
r