By now the Christmas of 2011 is almost a wrap. The snowmen collection sit upon the porch tonight, happy in the twenty degree freeze.
The tree remains in the living room, stripped of its snowmen. Tomorrow, or when it warms, I shall transport them to the shed until next year, or, if they do not magically transport themselves away to the Northern latitudes.
If you look closely in this photograph, you can see the angels in a waltz, the female on the left with her flowing gown, her right arm holding her Gabriel. These cloud formations I take quite seriously, while others would just write them off as superstition bordering upon heresy.
I do not care. If I believe in the manifestation of angels in the heavens, and they choosing to reveal themselves to me in this manner, so be it.
As my favorite etcher James Abbot McNeil Whistler said, "I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five."
Two plus two equal two snowmen, two Angels. So be it with me.
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