Some Things Don't Change

Google it seems wants to remind me that some things don't change all that much. I'm still looking at grasses in the cold of December and thinking about bouquets.

Looking Back/Looking Forward

Looking back to the earliest blooms of this year offers a little comfort on this frigid December night. I'm looking forward to some similar sights only two months from now. It's sort of hard to believe these pictures were taken a month before spring began this year, but they were.

Bookends

December isn't the worst time to think about how things begin and end.  

Since It's December Again and You Still Arent Dead...

Since the first day of spring is a whole season away, you may as well embrace the winter.
There's bark to see and some  grasses that look pretty fine too.

And purple berries.

What's Past and The Future Outside Now

Among the plants it's easy to see how the seasons bleed into one another. The ghosts of the season past persist on the branches of a Japanese Maple above, while not far away in the same moment next spring's rhododendron flower waits out the winter as a bud.