When I woke up...

...this morning, everything was so grey outside...nothing was moving...every tree, branch, and leaf was so still...like a photograph.

This is the view I saw from my bed as I opened my eyes.

I lay there in bed, and became the stillness, my body relaxed and it was a different kind of meditation. My mind and body became quiet and still. Even my breathing slowed down...

Then a leaf moved at the end of a branch of the curly willow, and I got up.