love affair with red

 You must plant it to enjoy it

and I am grateful that I did

For on days like this

those red hawthorne berries outside the window

have cheered my weary cold being

as I stir around the house

wishing and planning what I'll do

in the garden next year

Cheery red

A thing of beauty
in the midst of waning
A larder still holding food
for the wayward bird who may need it
or to drop to the ground to live again
Whatever its fate
it is a joy to behold...this bright cheery red
on this cold gloomy gray skyed day
in late November....
another thought of gratitude sent to heaven,Stafford