{"id":568,"date":"2021-12-30T14:09:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T14:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/?p=568"},"modified":"2022-01-15T14:29:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T14:29:18","slug":"early-morning-snowfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Snowfall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"803\" src=\"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Early-Morning-Snowfall-1-e1640873273555-1024x803.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Early-Morning-Snowfall-1-e1640873273555-980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Early-Morning-Snowfall-1-e1640873273555-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Having lived so many years in Alberta, winter seems incomplete to me without a little snow.\u00a0 So, like a child, I eagerly await the first snowfall of the season.\u00a0 I can feel the silence even before I see the snow, and I rush to the window in the morning to discover a world blanketed in white.\u00a0 I always marvel at the way the world has been made clean and new; almost unrecognizable as it glistens in the morning sun.\u00a0 This is the magic of winter\u2026 and to me it symbolizes a chance to start anew.\u00a0 All mistakes of the past have been erased, and the future awaits like a blank canvas before the first strokes of a brush.\u00a0 To me, this feels like perfect timing for the start of a new year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Early Morning Snowfall<\/strong>\r\nBy Krista Longeway\r\n\r\nI awake to a world blanketed in silence\r\nAs the snowflakes gently fall from the sky.\r\nEach snowflake performing a graceful dance\r\nThen coming to rest on the trees nearby.\r\n\r\nI venture outside, though its cold out there\r\nAnd breaking the silence I sigh aloud.\r\nMy warm breath forming crystals in the air\r\nthen gently drifting away as a cloud.\r\n\r\nAs if seeing the world for the first time,\r\nI gaze in wonder at the beauty of things.\r\nNow sparkling in the winter sunshine,\r\nA gift that only a fresh snowfall brings.\r\n\r\nOur everyday world has now been transformed\r\nTo a magical, glistening land of white.\r\nYesterday\u2019s footsteps erased by the storm,\r\nAll the world made new again overnight.\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-black-color has-text-color\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having lived so many years in Alberta, winter seems incomplete to me without a little snow.\u00a0 So, like a child, I eagerly await the first snowfall of the season.\u00a0 I can feel the silence even before I see the snow, and I rush to the window in the morning to discover a world blanketed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-quiet-reflection","category-winter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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