What I See Today

sitting in our dining room, at my computer desk.

I turn my head to the left of me and gaze out the window.

what do I see ?

First I see a gray sky

then the large green pine tree that graces our side yard, perhaps for a hundred years. 

then I  see the telephone wires that criss-cross the houses....and think of all the stories that have traveled on those wires over the years.

off in the distance I see more slate colored sky laced with boney looking bare trees.

and I think;

this world is beautiful even when it's gray.