Weekly Photo Challenge: Forces of Nature (Acrostic)

Nature

From birth to death and beyond
Offering beauty and protection
Rendering love unconditional
Creator, sustainer, destroyer
Energy that has no bounds
Sharing all that she has to offer

Only “the times they are a-changin”
Feeling our neglect, our abuse

Nature’s crying, can’t save us from ourselves
Another earthquake, people dying
Temperatures rising, ice caps melting
Upon us come floods, superbugs, disease
Realization is dawning, but is it too late
Eager earnest effort is essential

(Note:  The quote is the title of a Bob Dylin song)

Written for Weekly Photo Challenge: Forces of Nature

February 2015 in Seattle

Normal temperature in Seattle for February should be a high of 50 degrees (F) and a low of 37.  Yesterday the high was 77 and the low was 51.  While I am really enjoying the warm weather and am really glad that we don’t have the snow Boston is getting, the change in normal weather patterns is still a concern.

Today I noticed the rhubarb is up…. and the slugs have already been busy.

20150213_082451After publishing this post, I decided to go to the grocery store.  It was nighttime, but I saw this flower as I pulled out of the driveway.  When I returned, I used a low light setting to get a photograph I could share with you.

20150213_205933_LLSIt is February.

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