Hoping for a New Beginning

The holidays mark the end of the year. It is supposed have you feeling good and ready for the new year. Unfortunately that is not always the case. With work, school and holiday festivities here, there has been no time to go in the yard and enjoy the cold weather that has blessed the valley. The days are shorter and crazier. Everyone is trying to get their holiday shopping done and instead of being peaceful, it is hectic. I haven't had time to watch the birds fly around my yard or go outside and see the tree branches dancing in the wind. 

Honestly, I only pay attention to my backyard when the summer heat is here or if there is a covering of snow. Sadly there has been no snow lately. I want to pay attention, but I need something to grab it. It is hard to watch something so bland when there are other things you could be doing. 

I think I love the snow so much because it is more than just snow to me. It represents purity, beauty and a new start. "To see a snowflake in your dream represents purity and perfection." (Dream Mood) I think snow is what I need. In past years snow has ended a year and started another. Without that pure white coating it feels consecutive.  Like there is nothing new to see. The snow would be like a cleaning that my yard desperately needs.  I do believe that my yard wants the snow too. Without the burning sun or the frigid sky, it is nothing more than a storage place. I believe that it wants us to visit it and play in it. It needs the company of the others through the cold months. However, we aren't ready. My family and I need the yard to have  new start before we can continue with it.  It needs to be a new, pure and perfect yard. Maybe that is why I keep day dreaming about snowflakes storming in.

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?" (Brainy Quote) When I was smaller, the holidays made it seem like I was living in a different dimension. The world seemed limitless and the snow never stopped falling. I would play in the yard everyday making snowmen and snow angels. But now it is 2014 and we have had barely a fragment of snow. There is no new world for me to visit and no enchanting little snowflakes landing on my window sill. 

I am not mother nature. I cannot make it snow and I cannot force the pattern to change. But as the year ends I have hope that one day I'll wake in the pure world that visited me when I was small. Everything will be new, white ad perfect. I will finally have something new to discover. As for now, my yard continues its dull path. Maybe with luck, my yard will flourish in the new year. It will be exciting and everything I've dreamed about. I will just have to wait and see.   

"Snowflake." Dream Moods: Dream Symbol. Dream Moods, 22 Sept. 2014. Web. 13 Dec. 2014.

Priestley, J.B. "Snow Quotes." Brainy Quotes. Web. 14 Dec. 2014.