Chestnuts for the New Year

Welcome 2014

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spiky shells store treats
far up a bare chestnut tree
kept for the new year

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I hope your new year has many saved treats, stored against the long winter.
I also hope you find just what you need, when you first realize you need it. Joyous New Year! 

Copyright 2013 Brenda Davis Harsham

Northern Lights Haībun

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Northern lights result from solar emissions traveling across space and colliding with earth, sparking incredible light displays. They can happen any time or any place on earth, but the lights, uncoiling like chinese dragons, are only visible in the darkest night sky. Perhaps we are always surrounded by these subtle displays of arching color, but our eyes cannot see them in the greater brightness of the sun and moon.

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