January Cheer

It is bleak mid-winter.  Even though we are temporarily without snow and rain, it is still January.  The trees are leafless.  The grass is brownish.  There is not a green shoot poking up anywhere.  Sigh...

When one lives in this climate, one must expect the January blahs.  My antidote is to have blooms in the house.  At this moment there is a beautiful red amaryllis trumpeting cheer around the room.  

There are fragrant paperwhites brightly nodding and subtly scenting the house.  And there is a hyacinth bulb showing the promise of a stem of blossoms.  Each of these makes me smile.  They are reminders of the flowers to come. 

One does what one can to fight off the winter blues.