Bittersweet in the snow. Happy Sunday!

“If your eye is generous, your whole being is full of light!” Jesus

A sunny winter day after fresh powdery snow in New England is always a thing of beauty. Here we have bittersweet vines along a fence at Laudholm Farms in Wells Maine. I like bittersweet, even though I know it is an invasive plant that competes with native vines. And it is nerve more beautiful than with caps of snow. It is enough to open anyone’s generous eye...and I believe that happens when anyone appreciates the beauty of the created world around us. To open yourself to beauty is to open your generous eye. Beauty in the world speaks directly to the spirit...to the light within our beings...and it is the spirit that embraces and appreciates the beauty around us. There are few souls so dark as to be able to look a fresh fallen snow on bittersweet and not see the beauty. But you do have to look. Some souls  are so distracted by self and selfish interests that they actually do not see anything around them, except as an extension of their needs and wants. That goes for nature, and it goes for the people in their lives. They don’t see the beauty of the world because they are not actually looking outside themselves. I have to believe though that scenes like this can and do catch the attention of even the most self-absorbed. I know they catch mine, that they pull me right out of myself. Which is why I enjoy photographing and sharing them. It keeps my generous eye open, and I hope it does the same for you. Happy Sunday.