The Lady in Red

Beauty means this to one person and that to another.

And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read something beautiful they have experienced the same kind of emotion;
a feeling of being uplifted.

What is it about this Japanese Maple,
whose beauty changes with each season;

its colours fade but its beauty continues to grow.

Whether it's leaves are crimson bright and curling from the cold,

or dangling like exotic-looking spiders at the end of a branch,

even brown and shrivelled,

glimmers and streaks of red remain,
providing a different sort of beauty
no less nourishing to the soul.

I don't know if we realize how much we need beauty in our lives and how little pleasure would be left if it were to be gone.

"It is the smile on the earth's face, open to all, and needs but the eyes to see, the mood to understand."
~ John Galsworthy ~