Twigs, ice-clad stretch up

frozen hands cradling the last

red winter berries

a beautiful day

welcomes a brave new year

joyful Chinese friends

Violet clouds veil

dawn’s intensly blushing face

night’s lingering kiss

Little white kitten

talking with judge made us laugh

today the sun shines

Happily painful

biting encounter with snow

tactile memory

caught on a bare twig

a white feather flirts with the

bright sparkling river

Spring shoots through the snow

unstoppable as the world

following the sun

All I have to say

about today is, it’s cold.

outdoors came in

Knocking at my door

masked stranger with a package

our eyes exchange smiles

When ever before

did social conventions

change so profoundly