Floating on an ocean of glass
frosty sea creatures rise to greet the winter dawn
© Julie Rehnelt 2021
It’s finally cold enough for nature to breathe its icy breath on my bedroom windows! I love winter’s unique beauty!
No matter the weather wherever you are when you happen upon this, I hope you’re keeping well and finding beauty and joy in every season.
✿~Peace & Love~✿
“Kindness is like snow –
it beautifies everything it covers”
Khalil Gibran
Technically this isn’t snow in this image, it’s hoarfrost (which we’ve been delightfully blessed to be having quite a bit of here lately), but who’s being picky? Certainly not me. 😉
So HI YOU GUYS!!!
Sorry for ‘shouting’ all in caps, but I’m excited!
But I’m not excited with this new editor thing. Ugh. Probably old news to you all by now, but it might take me a while to get used to it.
So, I’ve sort of been away from here for months and you know what? I’ve sincerely missed you all! ❤
I have no explanation really, but I did start back to work in the beginning of October. I feel like I’ve been on survival mode for like, ever. You may relate, yes? And that doesn’t promote much inspiration or creativity. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had many moments where there’s been both of those, but I guess maybe I just haven’t been able to take the time nor had the energy to share. Plus, do you ever get tired of yourself? Like, do you ever feel like you’re always sharing the same thing and have nothing new to offer? I don’t know, like I said, I don’t really have an explanation. And then new habits and routines form and before you know it, it’s been months since you’ve shared on your blog…
Even now, I’m squeezing this post in before I have to hurry off for work. But I saw this quote and just had to take this time to share. I’m feeling it so much…
I have more to say, but I’m gonna have to leave it there for now. I hope you all are well. I’m sending out so much love to all of you!
✿~Peace & Love~✿
Posted in Nature, Photography, Poetry, Winter
Tagged Frost, hoarfrost, Nature, nature photography, Photography, Snow, winter
✿~Peace & Love~✿
Posted in Nature, Photography, Winter
Tagged Frost, Minnesota, Nature, Photography, weather, winter
Icy crystals
dazzling with delicate beauty
glow
in dawn’s warm rays
© Julie Rehnelt 2020
{Brrrrr} it’s cold here in Minnesota this morning! ❄ Currently, it’s -11 with a -28 windchill! Makes me grateful for a furnace, among other things…
Hope you have lots to feel grateful for today. Wishing you beauty and joy. And warmth!
✿~Peace & Love~✿
There’s a chill in the air as we awake
Ice crystals formed during the cold, dark night shimmer in the early morning light
“Baby it’s cold outside”
But we’re nice and warm under the covers, wrapped in the heat of each other’s arms
Lets linger here a little longer, my darling, and forget anything else exists in this world beyond us, beyond this moment
So we do…
The world melts away in our embrace, as ice and fire coalesce
But alas… it was only a dream
I reach out to touch you, but your physical form is beyond my reach, far across a vast expanse
So I reach out for you with my heart, and with my mind, in the hope that you can feel me, sense me somehow in your spirit
and that you’ll come to me one day, when you can, when it’s time…
Maybe it will be in the winter…
© Julie Rehnelt 2020
✿~Peace & Love~✿
Posted in Letters to my Soulmate, Photography, Poetry
Frosty stars twinkle bright
awaking me with beauty in dawn’s soft light
© Julie Rehnelt 2020
✿~Peace & Love~✿
Hopeful beginnings
happy endings
peace, love, and beauty along the way
My wish for you in the New Year
© Julie Rehnelt 2020
As well as good health ~ in mind, body and spirit.
I hope to be more present here in the coming year – I’ve sincerely missed all of you. Many blessings my friends! Happy New Year! ❤
✿~Peace & Love~✿
Cold winds swirl
autumn leaves twirl
two seasons merge into one
when snow joins in
adding a frosty dusting
of winter magic
© Julie Rehnelt 2019
But only for the weekend. Thankfully! 😉
We had a bit of snow here in Minnesota. Everyone is groaning “noooooo!” Except me. Don’t get me wrong… I was too at first, when I heard the forecast – if you’ve been with me very long, you know that autumn is my most bestest favoritest time of year, the last thing I want is for it to end prematurely. Heck, it feels like it’s barely even gotten started and there’s so much more enjoying I want to have. But, rather than dread or resist or groan about the cold and the snow – which we have zero control over, wouldn’t it serve us better to try to find the beauty in it instead? It’s there, it just might require a little shift in perspective to see it…
Wishing you warmth and beauty today and a perspective that brings you joy!
✿~Peace & Love~✿
Frozen fractals
nature’s gift of beauty
to get me through the winter
when it’s icy cold
© Julie Rehnelt 2019
✿~Peace & Love~✿
Posted in Nature, Photography, Poetry, Winter
Tagged Frost, Minnesota, Nature, Photography, Poetry, winter
Frosty plumes dance on glass in a silent wintry ballet
Shades of silver and gray fall softly on my eyes
as I awake to a colorless morning without a sunrise
beauty still shines
© Julie Rehnelt 2019
Granted, it wasn’t quite this colorless this morning. 😉
Here’s the original…
I always like things better in color, but making it B&W seemed to go better with the poem. I don’t know, what do you think?
But omygosh you guys, I’m so grateful for some winter beauty – winter has not been too kind to me here lately, and I’m so weary…
Between shoveling seemingly non-stop for weeks and ice dams and leaking roofs, I’m about done with winter.
But even in the midst of difficulties, there’s still so much to be grateful for. And beauty still shines…
Wishing you beauty and light and things to be grateful for on this Monday!
✿~Peace & Love~✿
Ramblings From Jewels 