Vivid Reflections

It was a quiet New Year's Day here on the Bayou.  My son, Michael, and I were the only ones here to enjoy a delicious meal of black eyed peas, cabbage and chicken casserole with a dessert of fresh-baked apple turnovers!  After gorging ourselves with fine food, we decided it would be in our best interest to take a hike.  Perhaps all of that food would not settle in as extra weight!  While out and about, we gathered a bit of firewood and then headed to the pier.  The day was overcast with intermittent rain showers.  That sun could not be seen at all!  Still, what enthralled the two of us was the reflection on the calm water.  Who would think that without a brilliant sun, objects could be so perfectly reflected!  Yet, they were!

First to catch my eye was the image of the trees across the way.  How pretty it seemed..how peaceful!  Perhaps all of this peacefulness was the quiet before the storm!  We both knew that come darkness, there would be a continuous racket of fireworks that were delayed by rain last night.  As I took several pictures of the trees, Michael called my attention to his uncle's (my brother's) boat.  Wow!  The image was so perfect that you could actually read the name of the boat in the reflection!  Every aspect of the boat was duplicated in crisp detail!  I have never seen the Bay this calm during the middle of the day!  It was amazingly beautiful!

This being New Year's Day, perhaps we should all do a bit of reflection on the past year.  Can we honestly say that our deeds from this past year are as beautiful and crisply clean as the reflections on the water today?  If not, perhaps we should all work on our habits in the coming year.  Then, next year, our reflections will stand out above the rest.  Hmmm?  Perhaps that is something to ponder as we make those resolutions.