Every step I took was a lesson in beauty

 This is a picture I took today whilst hiking my woods.  Four and a half miles of this.  

Our first snow this winter.

When I got home, I saw a female Cooper's Hawk alight on one of our trees in the backyard.

She was also beautiful. 

A few ponderings while walking in this poetic forest today:   I figured out that I live by the beat of a mother's heart; almost too emotional at times.  About everything, not just kids.  I also figured out that I think God is a metaphor for nature, not the other way around.  Today was a reflective kind of day.