Days Like This

On days like this, 

when the sky is so full 

of tenderness and sympathy

that it leans down 

and touches the earth

to offer comfort...

you must get out and walk in it.

Walking through the gloom,

you discover that the world

is not gray after all

but full of hidden color,

glowing,

and hopeful.

Walking through,

let the sympathy of the sky,

and the soft singing
of the fields

fill you

so full of tenderness and sympathy

that you lean down

and touch the earth

and offer comfort...

and, perhaps,
 take some comfort there as well.

Where ever you are, whatever the weather, I wish you comfort.

Photo Key: 1) Sorrel seedhead  2-5) Bladder Campion  6) meadow 7-8) Goatsbeard  9) Buttercup 10) Spurge (?) 11 - 13) Lady Slipper (Orchid)   14-15) Orange Hawkweed  16) Field Daisy 17) Meadow Grass