Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 2:04 pm
Taste of winter, taste of fall
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Sleet and freezing rain sent us home from the office about lunch time. It’s currently 27 degrees with a windchill of 16, and it’s headed downward from here. Yes!
Bright-burning leaves.
The Bradford pear outside my apartment window is radiant, but I fear this weather will finish off the brilliant pennants one by one. A jay hopped among the branches, startlingly blue.
It’s sleeting harder now. I hear the soft sound of ice against the leaves. Then, movement. A cardinal! A flash of blue. And three Yellow-rumped Warblers.
David J. Ringer
on 08 Dec 2005 at 2:33 pm 1.Dani said …
Wow, that tree is absolutely beautiful.
No leaves left on the trees up here, anymore..