Cloud Conversation

Dear friends,

I am on my way.

Busy rushing.

But I can't even get past 

the end of my street 

before I must 

STOP.

(It is a blue and white sign this time.)

The clouds are calling me.

The heavens

declare the glory,

sing the grace.

show the goodness.

I pause to speak to these ethereal friends.

A conversation as silent as the clouds,

but I say,

"Thanks for the reminder: 

glory, grace, goodness.

I needed that." 

Just a few words, 

or several thousand words, really,

for a picture is worth a thousand, they say.

Then I am off again.

Miles away, clouds shift, sun sets.

I can peek behind the busyness

and see them.

I stop again.

Go around for a clear view.

Lake. Clouds. Sun. Trees. Beauty.

Even the building

reflects the glory

in four levels.

Sky.

Clouds.

Tree.

Sunset.

All beauty, still.

And on the ground, too,

something else speaks.

The message:

It is all in the angle,

the perspective.

I can see it from this end.

Or that end.

Or both.

Both is better by far.

Don't forget to look...

up

down

all around.

Clouds, more clouds, and the realities of life: 

• One Sky
• I Dreamed a Dream
• Is My Head in the Clouds? (And Notes on Beauty)
• Shimmer and Shadow
• Weekend Gratitude: Lake Sybelia at Sunset, Lake Lily at Dusk
• On Clouds and Messy Humanity

P.S. A fitting poem, if clouds are friends... And this is why I stop.

A Time to Talk

When a friend calls to me from the road 

And slows his horse to a meaning walk, 

I don't stand still and look around 

On all the hills I haven't hoed, 

And shout from where I am, What is it? 

No, not as there is a time to talk. 

I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, 

Blade-end up and five feet tall, 

And plod: I go up to the stone wall 

For a friendly visit. 

Robert Frost

The first sunset photo in this post is my P52 / Sweet Shot Tuesday submission this next week. I took it at Lake Killarney in Maitland, Florida, just behind the Florida Adventist Healthcare office building. You can see my current photo collection here: Sweet Shot 2013.   

I also link at these other weekly blog parties...

• Still Saturday
• Domestically Divine on Tuesday
• Raising Homemakers on Wednesday
• Whole-Hearted Home on Wednesday

Glory. Grace. Goodness.

With love,

Virginia Knowles

www.VirginiaKnowles.blogspot.com