December 3 – Moment. Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year. Describe it in vivid detail (texture, smells, voices, noises, colors).

I think I am too tired to pick one moment and I am trying to catch up on the prompts having missed the 1st to the 4th December.  These 'catch-up' blogs are brief!

Okay let's try - one moment when I felt most alive?  I remember!  It was last January (2010) when Bea came to visit from Munich and it snowed very heavily that day.  We went outside and built an enormous SNOWMAN with coal-black eyes and a carrot nose and some kind of weird vegetable mouth.  He had a scarf and a hat and twigs for arms.  We laughed heartily that day and I felt really alive and very happy.  A Robin Redbreast landed on my Wellington boot and although momentarily thrilled I knew it was a warning of something bad to come as I had such a sense of foreboding.  The corresponding low came 12 hours later ....