Snow Photos
Although yesterday’s snowstorm dumped over two feet on our kids at college, we got off comparatively easy with only about 8 inches.
Winter
Quote from John Updike about Cold Temperatures
Cold is busy knitting intricate six-sided snowflakes by the billions…
Black and White Snow Photos
Yes, it has been still snowing here, regardless of the calendar changing to March. However temperatures have risen, and now 22 degrees feels like a heat wave, so we are hopeful anyway that spring is around the corner.
New Poem: Sabbath Snow Day
More sabbath snow yet again
canceling church once more
so our most recent amaryllis
is only able to flaunt its glory for us
as we hunker down blanketed in white
while the scrape of snowplows lumber past.
Snow Photos
We’ve had a very snowy season here… most Monday and Tuesday activities have been cancelled since New Years. I have only been to the pottery studio twice since the holidays, since Tuesday mornings have so often been impassable.
Recipe: The Perfect Snowy Day Soup
This is a heart-warming, easy to make soup that is great to warm up the toes of shovelers and sledders alike, or to eat fireside for dinner followed by a good book. Give this quick and cozy soup a try!
Amaryllis Photos
I can’t help myself. Every year I have a post of these glorious flowers that are made all that much better because they bloom inside during the winter
Now Comes Quiet
Now is the season of snuggling under downy covers. Now is the season of cuddling in our warm woolies with a thick book. Now is the time for settling next to the fire with a dear friend and a steaming mug of tea.
Prayer in a Blizzard
Given that we are expecting anywhere from 16 to 36 inches of snow in the next twelve hours, I thought the prayer below by Father James Martin was pertinent.
Photos of Fast Moving Cold Water
I thought you might enjoy my recent photographs of fast moving cold water. They were a challenge to take, but came out beautifully.
New Poem: Blue Shadows on Snow
Blue shadows look like piecework in an art quilt or thin indigo washes in a watercolor
January Amaryllis
Nothing like being the flower committee at church to have an excuse to have a bunch of amaryllis blooming in your house! Each year we get a few new bulbs and nurse back to blooming those from the several previous years. So it may be wicked cold outside, but over here, it is blooming inside!
Frost on the Windows This Morning
It was zero degrees when I pulled out of the driveway this morning, but before that, I snapped these photos in a chilly house!
New Poem: Back to the New Normal
Back to the New Normal Open nesting is challenging. The revolving door brings in gusts of cold air and crunchy-crisp leaf-litter as well as delight. So very good to see them, but your world clutters and clangs to a stop like musical chairs in suspension waiting frozen, like in statue tag as the house becomes … Read more
Poem: Another Blizzard
Another Blizzard Grocery store so crowded all carts are in use inside a buzz of people line up to buy firewood and hot chocolate; there is no bread on the shelves. Snow drifting in a blanketed hush heaps of glistening powder blindingly bright insulates lives; pristine and snug, quiet and still. Then with an overlay … Read more