Walking to work this morning was like a stroll through a winter postcard. A full moon glowed in the cold, clear, western sky while Venus beamed from the southeast. A hint of dawn lightened the eastern horizon and a frosting of snow coated the ground. As if on cue, a large flock of Canada geese circled overhead, their honks breaking the silence of this early winter morning.
From man's perspective, nature is full of such beautiful scenes; after all, one usually admires his own home. But nature has many faces; beauty, grace, violence, birth, death and decay to name a few. Governed by physics and genetics, nature is focused on survival. But, conscious of our own mortality, we humans prefer to dwell on her beauty and this morning was a gem!
