Holiday – Polly Castor

Family Christmas Photos 2019
By Polly Castor on December 26, 2019
Check out our photos of our family Christmas traditions, complete with links for our Christmas dinner menu.
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Shop Polly Castor Merchandise
By Polly Castor on November 29, 2019
Look no further than this website for great gifts!
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How to Resurrect (New Easter Poem by Polly Castor)
By Polly Castor on April 21, 2019
Resist hurt, Refuse to be defeated, Release blame, Assuage guilt...
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Family Christmas Photos 2018
By Polly Castor on December 27, 2018
We had a nice Christmas and hope you had a great holiday too.
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Merry Christmas!
By Polly Castor on December 25, 2018
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:
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Thanksgiving Photos 2018
By Polly Castor on November 24, 2018
I have so much to be grateful for, but I need to mention here my gratitude for each of...
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Pumpkin Photos 2018
By Polly Castor on October 31, 2018
What better way to celebrate than appreciate nature’s delicious bounty and the myriad variety of pumpkins?
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Christmas Photos 2017
By Polly Castor on December 27, 2017
All around, it was a good holiday, and we are now poised to jump into the New Year with...
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Thanksgiving Photos 2017
By Polly Castor on November 25, 2017
Here are the photos of our nice day together. Both daughters were home with us, one from California, and...
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Happy Halloween!
By Polly Castor on October 31, 2017
So for trick or treat today, we are waiting to see if we'll get our power back and be...
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Other Photos from Memorial Day Weekend
By Polly Castor on May 31, 2017
This post shows a bit of life around here on a holiday weekend. Nothing special in one way, but...
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New Year’s Resolution: Use What I Have
By Polly Castor on January 1, 2017
This year, I'm making a single widely encompassing New Year's Resolution that has all sorts of possible ramifications. Concisely,...
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Thank you for all the inspiration you share so generously. I am deeply grateful!

Putting the art of poetry, photography and painting into your hands is God’s gift to us who get to read it and see it. Thanks.

Very helpful in these seemingly uncertain times. I found a couple of specific ideas expressed here that apply to a specific situation in my life. Thank you!

Love your blog’s colour and joyfulness and the inspiring leads, Polly. Easy to see why you are much loved. Thank you.

I just want to say that I have really been enjoying your blog! It gives me hope for the world…

What a fine piece! You certainly are a shining example….[it] was uplifting and instructive.

A powerful message. Thank you for getting it out there.

The phrase ‘divine choreography’ is resonating with me. Bless you for sharing your inspiration with us all.

I feel the joy and love of the color and thought in all your work! You are letting your light shine.

Grace is a beautiful quality and you exude it in spades – thanks so much for all you do and are! You are a treasure!

Absolutely stunning, Polly. I love the infinite range of ideas, expression, and media in this BIG blog of yours.

I recently I recommended your blog to a friend saying, “She’s like a dear friend, she just doesn’t know me.” Thank you for all the delight you add to my days!

Your reading challenge has inspired me and given me permission to read again, as previously I had just fitted reading round everything else. Now it is a legitimate activity in my life and I am enjoying it immensely!

Your blog is very interesting and insightful.

Way to go on your artistic journey. You show great courage, humility, and such support for everyone around you.

Your photos are so vivid and expressive and inspiring and artistic and alive!

Thank you for your ultra positive, upbeat, cheering and cheerful expressions in so many forms. What great seeds to sow in world thought!

Thank you for the constant good thoughts and beautiful expressions of love and joy that you share on your blog.

This is a beautiful summary and reminder of how we can both individually and collectively dissolve the powerless, baseless lies with Truth. Thank you, Polly!!

Thank you sincerely for your joyful out-pouring of love, light, color, comforting, inspiring words…

This blog is simultaneously simple and profound– a perfect, balanced combination of seriousness and light.

LOVE it. Made me smile while I was reading it.

Polly, I just love your spirit, innovativeness, receptivity to beauty and to God’s goodness expressed. Thank you for your blog.

Thank you Polly for your radiant joy and embrace of each of us, wrapping us in your color and beauty of Soul.

Your art is thrilling.

Your blogs are a delight.

I salute you! And I sure do thank you for inspiring me to greater efforts along all lines of life!

I have tremendous admiration for your strength, your depth, your compassion, your passion and your love. You are a woman deeply filled to the brim…

Such a complete radiance of Soul you are demonstrating. I find it very inspiring!

WONDERFUL blog, Polly! Thank you for your spiritual calm, support for each of us, uninhibited creativity, and amazing paintings. I am just left in awe !

I am so totally impressed with your photography, poetry, and painting. Your talent is incredible!!!

I enjoy your strong, bold artwork– there is so much going on in them that my imagination takes off. I really appreciate your blog. It brings joy every day.

I am simply amazed at the wealth of beauty, soul, and experience. Love it. Love you! Thank You for sharing your innermost so openly.

Thank you so much for this wonderful insight! You put into words what I have been grappling with for a long time. This is just what I needed today.

I am so happy to have found your site and to be able to enjoy your expression of Spirit! Love your poetry, your photos, your ideas, your …YOU! THANK you for sharing so abundantly!

Thank you for passing along such wise words.

This is absolutely beautiful and so incredibly helpful and inspiring! Thank you so much! ❤️

You are my favorite artist. I just have to say it. Your paintings make me so happy.

Thank you for your transparency of love, your generous sharing of what you are pondering and doing.

I feel such gratitude for the beautiful way in which you express God. Thanks for blessing my life and being such a shining light in the world!

Your site is bolstering my creative thoughts. I need to put them into action.

I have to tell you that your spiritual to-do list was the springboard for a great talk with my older daughter. We are going to check on each other, and progress.

It is always refreshing to see the loves, joys, challenges, and triumphs that you share on your blog.

You inspire goodness, wholeness, contentedness and joy.

These photos are so wonderful, it really warms the heart.

Thank you for sharing yourself and creativity in such a transparent way, it is very inspiring and humbling to me.

Your blog is uplifting and enlightening, and seems to speak to me just when I need it most.

Your blog is full of the wonderful, multilayered colors and textures that you play with, and share so unselfishly with the world.

What a beautiful spirit you have, shining right through your source.

I’m grateful for you opening my eyes to the wonders that surround us.

Love all you do and express. You’re an amazing role model!!

This is absolutely magnificent. Bless your precious and beautiful soul for sharing this.

Quite unforgettable. You truly have a way with words: warm; strong; inviting; enlightening; so substantive, and more.

Magnificent poem. How blest you are to be a poet, photographer, artist, metaphysician, all wrapped up into One.

I get so happy when I see your paintings. I really do. They bring me such joy. I feel your heart when I see them.

Hi Polly, loved this poem. It radiates hope and feeling of calmness. I am glad I came across these beautiful words. Keep posting similar reads and spreading positivity.

I am a silent regular reader of your daily blog, and I’m finally in touch to tell you how much I like it. I love it!

Every day I look forward to your blog. It’s encouraging me to find ways to express what God reveals in me.

Loved your plein air painting, the pictures of the garden plenty — oh wow. Love opening your blog each day — it is a treat that I save sometimes.

Love your blog. Today’s is dynamite and very helpful to viewing our role as individuals at this time.

Yes, lots of good flavor triggers in there. I printed it out and will try it. Thanks so much!

This is a fantastic article Polly…so much in it, I know I’ll have to re read it at least twice more!

I love your coffee cake recipe, I have a book list from your blog, I love the photos, the poems, the paintings, the movie reviews, the humor, the honesty, the color.

Lovely Polly! You are an inspiration! I am so happy to have your blog in my life!

Thanks for sharing from the seat of your soul with generosity and openness.

Sounds delicious and simple! Two of my favorite adjectives!

Your eyes are keen and your photographs dynamic.

I look forward to your messages each day, like a delightful gift to unwrap.

Thank you Polly!! This has needed to be said for a while!

When I open my email in the morning I read all the have-to emails first; I save yours to read as dessert. Thanks, Polly!

AUDACIOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!! (:

Love these colours and the strong contrasts Polly!

I have just started this book and am really loving it! Thank you so much for recommending it.

I have so enjoyed your recent posts– about your garden, your reflections about parenting, your vibrant artwork– so many wonderful expressions of Spirit.

Thank you for using this platform to share these references for listening & learning. Now the work required to make a lasting change is up to each of us! ❤️

Your abstracts are interesting and you have a unique style that is all your own. Original, demonstrating individuality and confidence! I see joy and love expressed.

Wow, super powerful and definitely what I needed to hear today.

I just adore all of your wonderful posts and everything that you share so generously. ????? You have a beautiful sense of soul that you share – it blesses me and so many!

Thanks, Polly, for listening so carefully and sharing so selflessly.

Thank you for sharing such a personal, and at the same time, universal, love of beauty.

Thank you so much for your fantastic, soulful images– your photos really capture the love, joy, camaraderie, power, and intensity of the present moment.

You encourage me to grow with your everyday wisdom and your lovely contributions.

Beautiful photos. It is uplifting and energizing to see such bright, cheerful, healthy and fresh images. Thanks, I needed that!

Yes, healing does happen when we deeply and humbly pray. Thanks for keeping that idea alive.

Keep up the good work. You are an inspiration! I love reading your blog with it’s many insights.

Beautifully written, Polly … captures my sentiments exactly.❤️

This blog deeply resonates while being beautiful, delicious, inspiring, and fun. Not easy to do!

Thank you Polly for this article on supply! I cherish the healing thoughts therein very much, and they are very helpful.

Your posts are treasure troves of your beautiful and giving heart.

I did your 52 books challenge, and loved the structure that it provided to my selections. Doing it again this year too!

Polly, your reflection of Soul’s endless creativity is truly wonderful! Thank you for letting the divine shine through you so brightly!

What an incredible blessing and inspiration you are. Thank you so much for your beautiful heart!

I wanted you to know that I found the time I spent on your blog to be relaxing, refreshing, inspiring, and totally enjoyable.

Thank you Polly–you are always such a clear thinker and always willing to share your God-given gifts.

Polly, you are a whiz at living life the way it’s meant to be. I’m fascinated by all you do!

Polly, I am absolutely amazed. My mouth was watering! I’ll be thinking about it all night…and tomorrow we will break out the paints!

I for one want to thank you so much for writing this blog. I started about a year ago and look forward to reading it every day. I feel like an armchair adventurer…

My mother adores your blog and speaks to me often about what recent nugget you shared which she thought was wonderful!

Everything on your site is so colorful, spiritual and alive!

The Brussels sprouts were an exceptionally BIG hit here…. could you direct me to more literature on spiritual healing?

Thank you for your burst of sunshine reflected in your positivity this morning… I look forward to your blogs.

You are … just plain wonderful, Polly! Your blog is bursting with poetry, art, writings, love of God, family, friends, all things great and wonderful and good!

Just beautiful, Polly. So honest and uplifting. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and the helpful ones of others.

Love this– actually so “timely” for what I have been thinking about lately.

I truly love and am inspired by your blog, including capturing the beauty of life in the moment, teaching by example, taking time with children, and spirituality.

Thank you for bringing your hydrangeas into my home via the internet. Other flowers are lovely too, but hydrangeas are SPECIAL.

You are such an inspiring person, Polly, and I love the variety of your activities you share with us all! Thank you so much.

Polly this is absolutely exquisite and so inspiring. I will refer to it often.

I loved this post! It gave me much to think about. Thank you for being such a beautiful and prolific source of inspiration. You are a wonder! I’m a fan!

You are such a gem Polly- it is an incredible blessing to daily read your blog!

Your blog captures a life well lived, constantly imparting good– truth, health and happiness– including beauty, harmony, art, science to the world.

This blog is upbeat, progressive, sincere, colorful, metaphoric, and exploratory. Such a rich feast!

Love your blog. Today’s was dynamite, and very helpful for understanding our role as individuals at this time.

I want to express my gratitude to you for such a well thought out essay. I found it quite enriching and resonate with those true answers.

You are an inspiration to me, and I’m sure to many others. With appreciation for all you do to magnify good!

Your work is always spirited and inspirational.

Thank you for the joy you share. I look forward to reading your posts!

I did your tomato tart a few days ago, and it was fabulous! I am vegetarian and look for meals I can make that have lots of flavor. Your tart was just perfect!

You are terrific and amazing. In many outstanding ways.

Glorious! Thank you for tending these lovely flowers together, and for posting on your blog, Polly.

You have a great eye for beauty Polly. I love your blog.

What an inspiring and uplifting painting. Thanks for sharing your inspiration with the world!

I love that you live such an active life, have so many interests, and share your insights with me. Your blog is like a conversation with a dear friend.

WOW! Polly! Some truly marvelous work there!!!

Oh yum, Polly… These gorgeous photos made my mouth water and my eyes pop!

I so enjoyed your trip blog. The outstanding photos and the amazing narratives made me feel I was on vacation for a few minutes each day.

Wow, you outdid yourself this month with your Bits and Clips. It was a wonderful mix of beauty, humor, and thoughtfulness.

You are so incredibly sweet, gracious, kind, thoughtful, creative, generous, joyful, witty, courageous, tender, persistent, compassionate, brilliant, articulate, ad infinitum!

Wow…you have made carrots sexy!

Polly, your wonderful blog is doing more than its bit in this dreadful time. Thanks, and keep on keeping on!

I made your fabulous Fish Tacos and they were BEYOND delicious!!

I never before found computers this beautiful….

Excellent post, dear Polly! Thanks!! There is lots that I relate to in your comments!

You are doing so wonderfully at praising God with your talents.

You show us how God’s love shines in all things. You are a blessing!

I always appreciate your reviews. Our fave film in 2019 was The Green Book – which we watched following your recommendation.