A Little Color in an Otherwise Gray Day

A few tenacious raindrops are clinging 

to the scrawny fingers of the vine maple.

After winds knocked Douglas fir cones

loose from my neighbor's tree

(why do they only fall in my yard?)

now the smoke from my other neighbor's chimney 

is rising almost straight up.

It's a fine day, I think,

for a splash of color.

Color Quilt - created on Polyvore.com/MeriMagic

Not my usual submission,

and not a series of images,

but I'm thinking this might be today's

Postcards from Paradise

because to me

paradise is alight with color.