Winter Interest

I took a walk this morning and it was 2 degrees.

There haven't been many times when I've lifted my head up to see beyond the sidewalk this winter, but yet there were tapestries growing in the winter garden.
Tenacious ones.

I asked a friend this past fall whether I should cut down some of the plants I had in the garden. They had bloomed, we had entered fall, naively unaware what winter had in store for us. She replied, "I leave them for winter interest." Any invitation to be lazy seems good to me and so they stayed. Seeing them today I'm grateful.

And then there was a face.

Tapestries grow in winter, they're not put off by the negative temperatures. This woman dressed for the weather.

I prefer a scarf, but perhaps she feels a warming trend coming.

Lift your head up on your next walk, you never know what winter interest may be around the corner.
And keep weaving.