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Photo Friday: Patterns

I chose to think out of the box today for patterns.  I awoke to freezing temperatures and a frosty world.

As I left the warmth of my covers a few hours ago the first thing I saw outside the kitchen window was the water in the humming bird feeder frozen.  Again.   I said to myself, 'This has become a pattern.'   Aha!  Since I've been so delinquent in Photo Fridays lately I thought since I am a day late and a dollar short of good patterns shots.....

  There has been a PATTERN in my mornings of late.

It was 25 degrees this morning.  Making for a frosty world.

 As the sun came out it made beautiful little prisms on the tips of the blades of grass outside my breakfast window.

 Breaking away from the pattern of rushing through, I remembered recently reading,  'Be aware, look closer, really see things around you, find something new.'  This morning it was the 'small' crags on Mt. Rainier.

In the pattern of each morning, I steeped a hearty cup of tea, this time Teavana's strawberry lemonade (thank you, Heidi).

And sat down to check my email as my husband makes breakfast:  Steel-cut  oats cooked with sliced apples and cinnamon.  I love THIS pattern!

As we sipped our tea, the sun rose to melt the frost on the ground, and the clouds made their own beautiful pattern.  

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As Don chose to read some more in my cousin's book 'The Truth is on the Walls,'  that same cousin called me and asked if I could scan a page out of my mother's journal for the next book she is writing.

Perusing I found the day my dad (Jack) proposed marriage.  Mother wrote atop one page 'Yankees invaded Rome.' June 3 1944.  That's somewhat off the topic of patterns, but most interesting.