leafette's Blog

The colour of winter
Jan 7, 2008 | 6:11 AM PST
I didn't know that I was colour blind.  I'm afraid that I'm not the exception but rather the norm!  The 7 hour drive was uneventful.  In fact except for the black ravens, I only saw one big timber wolf lope across the highway.  Not even a tawny deer. It was just becoming dusk and the time for the moose to swing their shaggy heads about in the cars headlights.  Probably better not to have seen one as they pretty much wreck cars when they decide to have be close up and unfriendly!  The scenery was grey and quiet like. Snow covering everything, rocks, trees, lakes, and even the highway.  I began to look for colour.  The trees!  But even they let me down.  Evergreens are another shade of that noncolour- black.  But beautiful!  Restful.  It stirs the soul in a way the more colourful seasons of the garden cannot.  I had never seen  the colour of winter before.  Its colouring is the colour of calmness.