To The Woods!

For those with a fascination
for natural gems this day
was a perfect opportunity
to seek them out. One had only
to venture outside the comfort
of warmth and boredom on a
cold, windy winter day
whose skyscape alternated
between blue and white
whenever the cloud cover
shifted to reveal the beaming
sun prepared to illuminate
the scene below. Into the woods
we went, where every tree
and shrub and the forest floor
were fluffed with the pure
white of fresh-fallen snow.
Earlier weather events left
layers of ice gleaming like 
priceless diamonds against 
the sky ravished by the sun.