First there was the snowstorm. Then the ice storm. Now more snow is predicted tonight. Today, with the rare sunshine, my new camera and I walked around the property. It is a beautiful, enchanted landscape, but the trees and bushes are bowed under the weight of it. The weather makes me think of Fire and [...]
Deep snow always reminds me of growing up in the North Country, near the Canadian border. Warm feelings for cold white stuff! This morning, the view from the front porch looked like this: Looking out my mother’s window I spied this blue jay with feathers all puffed up, taking shelter in the rhododendron bush from [...]
During last winter, I took photos of a snowy, ice-lantern-lit labyrinth in 9 degree F weather with my digital camera. The camera never recovered from that experience. I had been limping along with it since then, so imagine my delight when I found a new ELPH camera under the tree! Here are a couple of [...]
Today is the day for the annual Sacrifice of the Balsam. (Click for last season’s post.) As we searched on this beautiful winter morning, the sun shone in blue skies; then in early afternoon some clouds moved in. The sun behind the clouds looked like a full moon. We came home with a fragrant balsam.
Written on Christmas Eve, 1513 I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not. But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts [...]
