SPARK on Monday

Happy Monday!   Time for SPARKS.  If you don’t know what posting a SPARK is all about, here’s the history.   SPARKS is a Monday tradition – how did it start and what IS IT?  “SPARKS” was started by Annie McGuffy of McGuffy’s Reader but ended when her blog was hacked some time ago.  It was meant to be a way to start out each week with with a meaningful thought – something that spoke to each of us and hopefully everyone else who read it.   Although Annie isn’t currently blogging, a lot of us who enjoyed her SPARKS decided to keep posting SPARKS of our own.   Why?   Because sometimes we need a little “spark” in our lives and these posts were meant to at least be a PART of that effort.   Please feel free to post your own SPARK on your blog and let everyone know you have…….we get energy from each other that way.

I wanted my SPARK today to be about Winter………………we haven’t had much of a Winter here in my area of Virginia for a couple of years – the odd snow shower but no accumulation to speak of really until this year.    AND the cold – it is ridiculously cold – way colder than usual.    Anyway, that’s why my SPARK today is about winter – and it’s my sense of humor showing again I think that drew me to this particular SPARK.

I’m already anxious for Spring.    I loved Winter as a kid – but now that I have aches and pains and a hip replacement I’m not so crazy about it.    Snow is slippery even if you don’t think it will be, and ice hides under the snow so walking around can be treacherous.    You want to look up and see the beautiful trees coated in snow but unless you’re standing STILL you don’t dare move!    LOL    I particularly like this picture of the woods with snow-covered limbs because we’ve had a number of snowy days that made our woods look like a “fairy land”.     But in the end – I’m actually longing for WARMTH and Spring.    Come on Mother Nature………..BRING IT ON EARLY – I’m ready!

Hugs, Pam