Fill the sky today

Their bottoms are dark

With tops of grey…

The bouncy puffs

Of white cotton on a blue background

Giving way to gloom…

My thoughts are lifted

With the color of red on

Burning bushes in many yards

With neighbors raking

Piles of leaves into the parkways

Hoping there will be one more pickup

Before a heavy snow…

The colors on the ground

In the mounds of leaves

Fill our lives with glee

With hope that grey skies

Are only threatening snow

With their water loaded gloom

And heaviness Hovering…

My house is warm

My heart is full

Knowing my family are all

Getting ready for the holidays

Ahead…

That the clouds in the skies

Are preparing us for…

Thanksgiving for all we have…

Christmas… a new birth of our Savior

And the onward hope of

A Blessed New Year…