From The Rambling Taoist:

When events occur that we [Taoists] don’t easily understand, we don’t presume
that some benevolent or malevolent force is at work. We acknowledge
that, as human beings, we are unable to grasp the breadth of the
universe and so things that seem random to us are anything but random
for the workings of nature. Somewhere there was a causative agent that
set in motion the result that we experience.

It has been
mentioned to me before that Taoism seems like a belief system bereft of
joy. I think that couldn’t be furthest from the truth. Watching a
magnificent sunset, a caterpillar became a butterfly or the ebb and
flow of waves on an ocean beach is like heaven to those of us who see
ourselves as part of Tao, the one.

    Indeed.  For me, at this time of year here in Western Massachusetts, the thing I notice is the frost/snow on the mountains around us.  The other day we had about an inch of new snow on the ground.  But the top of the mountains were frosted white, from the top to about two-thirds of the way down.  It looked like some celestial painter had sprayed them with fake snow.  But it was real.  Beautiful.  Kind of like this: