Living&Dying

Blog 26 …

Winter storms surpassed their quota for year 2014.  It is the sixth downpour of not only snow, but also sleet. All things green outdoors had more than enough they could bear, so a little at a time, trees and bushes’ limbs, branches, leaves, and established nest resting on them, still useful to birds for the coming spring, all drop and fall to the ground.  Trees and bushes’ crown and trunk, which for many years long stood firm and proud, could neither carry the weight of snow and ice.   It was only a matter of time before they fall to the ground, and sure enough, they break and splatter on the ground.  Then … something happens in time.  The fallen trees complete their transformational magic.  From their buried seeds and spread pollen come new growths.  It was as if their fall simply was a passage … an eventful rising and birthing to fresh and young trees!