winter – Page 3 – Skelton Sketches

Hello Winter.

Posted on November 11, 2015April 28, 2017 by lindaskelton

It’s not much,but it’s a beginning. In the quiet wee hours before we were up a dusting of snow fell.

A light rain was already sloughing it away as I slipped on my new UGG-wanna-be’s and snuck out to snap some pictures.

Is isn’t much but there’s sure to be more to come.

The seasons of our years and our lives continue…

–LS

For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. …Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. Ps.74:12,17

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Gen.8:22

The advent season has come…

Posted on December 3, 2014April 28, 2017 by lindaskelton

With the coming of the advent season our first snow has fallen.

Even an inch of snow makes the world a brighter place…

…transfiguring the common fern and salal… and making neighborhood houses look somehow more cozy.

It’s time once again to pull out Christmas things and think of gifts and greetings to be sent…

Meanwhile our willow marks the season with her fast falling leaves

And the backyard is all frosted wonder…

It’s the light shining through that makes it all so glorious isn’t it?

“…the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light,
and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death,
on them a light has dawned.” (Mt.4:16)

–LS

The Heart of Winter

Posted on February 6, 2014April 29, 2017 by lindaskelton

Every time we make this trip, I marvel how far a day’s drive can take us,
and how different the trip would have been not so many years back, in the days of wagon trains…

We’ve travelled back into the heart of winter …