the things i like about winter

the things i like about winter:

• crunchy white grass
• leaf piles
• frozen puddles
• snowy white distant mountains
• mother nature's bounties: tangerines, feijoas, tamarillos, apples...
  
• soup that always gets better towards the end of the week
• wearing big boots for crunching said grass/kicking up leaf piles/cracking icepuddles

winter, it seems, is kinda like revisiting your youth. i was rather pleased to discover the other day that calix' glee was equal to mine when we discovered a gardener's secret stash of autumnal leaves. oh those cripsy brown leaves of all sorts of shapes and sizes- they fly! they tumble! they twirl in the air. they are so much better off redistributed! mother nature never intended we make piles of them, otherwise why would she have come up with wind? in amongst the leaves c discovered an acorn. he asked me, in his special way, what it was.

have you ever not known what an acorn is?

it's not nearly enought to name it an acorn, un gland, because what does this mean?
so we set aside the leaf tossing for a couple of minutes while i explained the significance of the acorn, why it is, its potential. calix regarded my face with seriousness, he listened to every word. then we got back to leaf tumbling because really, that's what it's all about. sometimes you can be too busy pondering the life of an oak and meanwhile all the good leaves have blown away.

xx
mama b
(still learning!)