Rainy weekend to beautiful soggy day…

Just right for swinging.

24 January 2012

Baking cookies, wandering through the garden, marveling at the new growth already, and contemplating events and people bigger than ourselves…

I think it is about time to read that letter yet again.

This January holiday.

16 January 2012

Is it staring at its own reflection, this Spring bloom in January…

Narcissus papyraceus

9 January 2012

Hurtling through space at 18.5 miles per second. We have once again made that trip around the Sun.

1 January 2012

Spending a quiet New Year’s Eve with an accordion player…

Beginnings and endings…Beautiful creatures of Earth and of Space…Infinite wonderings and eternal wanderings…Good-bye beautiful girl…

31 December 2011

Time to slow down and enjoy. Watch the birds feasting on their wreaths. Read a new book in my pajamas til noon. Drink coffee all day. Only eat leftovers. Play. And play some more.

So lucky to be able to do these things…so lucky indeed.

29 December 2011

That’s how my grandparents always answered the phone on Christmas Eve. No one knows why…but the tradition continues…as traditions should. Pizza for dinner for the same reason…mmmm…

Have yourself a merry little Christmas….

24 December 2011

A few twinkling lights….aaahhh, that’s better.

Now, if everyone would please step back, take a deep breath, and be nice to one another. ‘Tis the season and all that.

14 December 2011

Holiday decorations. Before that long-ago holiday in November, I was so ready to start the red and green decor. And now that it is here—the time has come—I’m hesitating. It could be the need for a little Griswold inspiration. Or maybe another cup of cocoa—with marshmallows in a twenty year old Santa mug. Or maybe it’s something else. Or maybe I just need to don the hat and get to decking the halls (well, maybe not the hall per say, I should really start somewhere with higher visibility). I may be over-thinking it just a tad.

The greenery is in a heap on the floor (cat isn’t complaining). Mistletoe is waiting to be cut. Saw Santa yesterday. Off to a good start…here I go…

5 December 2011

frost covered the ground early this morning…warm thoughts of wool and coffee mixed with the morning chill…the month of winter’s arrival…

and for the record, that scarf has been six years in the making and still not finished…
but it’s early yet

1 December 2011