Oh I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain . . so it goes.
Today I see diamonds, positioned all along the bare branches of the blueberries, the lilacs and the apple tree. So many miniature globes sparkling. The sun has not yet come over the mountain, but the sun glow of early morning is enough light to set them shining. And not a breath of wind, or they would fall.
So God scatters light in our world. The water drops are amazingly strong. They grip the branches. How much wind would it take to throw them off? A blueberry branch sways as something flutters it. Below my sight path where the window sill cuts it off, something or someone is shaking the branches. A junco perhaps. Still the droplets cling.
The sun is coming. I see it approach as the rays light the top of the huge hemlock 60 yards away in the neighbor’s yard. The light level is falling, and now the droplets appear even on the hemlock. Before, they were too far for me to see. Now they are directly illuminated by the rays of the sun. The light show crescendos. All this with a light blue background. No visible clouds.
The fairy drops in the hemlock are now almost invisible as the sunlight grows. But in the nearer apple tree, some shine as miniature stars and they’re twinkling! They seem to enlarge as they warm. There’s still no wind, but they grow and shimmer in blues and greens and then fall. The sun has risen.
Whatever is Good 