Vessels to hold God’s gifts of nature ~ Sue Batton Leonard

Is there not a thing on Earth that does not require a vessel?

Vases for heady scented lilacs, for spring tulips with their straight and narrow stems, tall containers for wispy forsythia branches or late summer gladiolus, remembrances of a long summer.

Then there are nature’s offerings of the self- contained. ACORNS, walnuts, chestnuts, drying corn on the cob.  Or the dried seeds left ready to be scattered for next year across fields or left to fall in the soil beneath where they grew. Needed are substantial vessels to hold large seed-filled heads of sun-flowers indoors.

When winter arrives, a birdhouse for wintering feathered friends, tree cavities and nest boxes for nuthatches, titmice, and downy woodpeckers.

Hard at work are the birds who know their craft of building of new nests to contain their fragile shells of spring.

Containers all, we are we human beings who feel for the blessing of nature of each season.

Artists change out their palettes of colors to reflect the colors before them, of autumn.