I looked to the Sky with Excited Eyes

There's always one day, isn't there, when it suddenly dawns on you that Christmas is almost upon you. 

It happened to me today - we were looking for a Christmas present we had spotted a couple of months ago, but forgot about, and decided we better make a move.  

we visited two garden centres, bedecked with holly and an overdose of christmas lights and songs, And I bah, humbugged the lot of it,and then as we drove home, in the setting sun, Greg Lake singing like a lintie on the radio, I thought, it's Christmas, almost. 

and then I glanced to the sea,aware that my two babies, are at other ends of the worlds, and then I thought... is that a mist rolling in?   So Himself offered to drop me at the beach, so that I could see. 

We parked in the car park at the dunes, and I couldn't see - I had to climb a dyke and scramble over the dune, and then I met this. 

It was so beautiful I almost sobbed.  There was an audible gasp.  I couldn't believe how amazing the light was right in front of my eyes.   Not a fog, in sight, but a little family standing, like me, in awe of the sky and the sea, and not only that; two young lassies having a swim, in -3 air temperature.  I can only imagine what the sea felt light. 

I stood and gazed and gazed, apart from getting slightly darker,it didn't loose any of it's glory... father round the bay was just as beautiful - see extra.

Take time to stop, and smell the roses, and take in the view.