White

This was a few days before Christmas. The snow fell and bathed everything in white. It didn't stay long though and by Christmas Eve there was no snow at all. On Christmas Day it tried and tried to fall but it never accumulated to much. Temperatures were not too cold either and the day might have been a chilly day in the two months before December. I remember some fifteen or twenty years back when the kids were little there was so much snow, they built tunnels inside snow banks that were knee deep and more. Lots and lots of snowmen were built and lots of fun had. That had changed so much since then that now a little bit of snow is better than no snow at all.

This pretty candle with the Nativity scene we found at a Croatian store and knew we had to get it to put it at the foot of a grave of a young boy taken from us too soon. His name was Simon, a son of friends, he's gone now two years. His passing was in July, two days shy of turning seventeen, much too young to leave this earth but he's with us in spirit every day of our lives.