Showing Off Her Diamonds

flakes begin with bits and glimpses appearing from the middle of the gray winter sky dusting brown dried grass, then covering a frosty frosting that begins thickening flakes become larger, more insistent. magically transforming your yard to a wonderland within an hour you have a glimpse of heaven lovely silence amid the work of the snowflakes a cardinal flies past, emphasizing snow’s whiteness She gleams and twinkles, glistens Showing off her diamonds, and her blue shadows You gasp, for her magnificence startles you each time.