The Color Green

So many people including myself.....were so concerned about me moving from Southern California to Idaho. The concern was the weather. How was I going to deal with it. Whenever I met new people they would ask me (before winter came), "how will you deal with the cold coming from So. Cal"? It was really the "unknown" for me. I couldn't calculate "cold". What was it going to really be like to live in "cold" weather?

What I discovered is.... that it wasn't the "cold" that was so difficult at all. I found myself still riding my bike in the snowy weather....and actually liking it. There were some beautiful times. Giant snowflakes....the freshness of snow. Being bundled up.

The difficult part was the lack of color.....especially the color green (which happens to be my favorite color). Today as I look out into the backyard I see dormant grass and trees that are twigs and branches but no leaves....no green....no snow. This in between place. I know that spring is coming and along with it the color green!