Pond Abstract

Dear Diary,

Despite our return to cold and blustery weather things are melting around the pond.  A small section of it had open water at the shore and streams of water rushing down the hill into it.  Between that and the wind the water was fairly dancing.

The ripples distorted the reflections in a wonderful way and I got my first pond abstraction for 2015.  I was delighted to see the pond slowly coming back to life.  We are not out of the woods quite yet but the process has started and it was such a hopeful sight for these winter weary eyes to behold.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Orison Swett Marden