Last Week – Singing Ice. This Week - Lilac Buds.

Prayer for December Lilacs -

Please go back inside your dark stems, my darlings. This is Advent, the season of waiting, not the season for your glorious colors and scents. I know it’s hot and you’re just following the rules. But my sweets, these May/December days are lying to you. These I’m-so-hot-I-soaked-my-bra-days won’t last. It’s Jack Frost’s trick to lure you out and then, poof, he’ll paint your cheery green buds brown. Your season will be over before it should ever have started. Please, dearest flowers, grow another set of bracts and wait until the real spring comes.

But, come what may, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to all,

and to all, a safe winter’s journey.

Love, Jorie

PS - Thanks for reading!