Stillness Thoughts in a New Year
Stillness Thoughts in a New Year. A chance to chose my intentions and set the goals I want instead of what I ought to. A Flashback to 2019.
A Winter Weekend Picture Album
These weekends in January seem sublimely slow and filled with joy and family, candlelight and music. I scored an inexpensive replacement on Ebay for our 5 CD changer so that we can play our CDs again. And I cleaned out our games finding some spelling and math games to play with Fiona. And finally mopped…
The Wind
The only weather element I hate is the wind. Oh how I hate the wind. And I don’t mean the nice breeze that blow by and tickles you in the Springtime. I mean the howling ripping destructive mean bitter wind that comes around at the worst times, coldest times, rainiest times. I hate how it…
Winter Color
The overcast grays, the rusty leaves. You’d think the winter landscape was colorless. But there’s color in special places. And then suddenly two bald eagles fly up from the side of the road, disturbed from their carcass feast as you drive by and you gasp as their beautiful large wings spread in front of your…
Cherish the Darkening Days
The darkening days draw us in. Into groups around fires with food and laughter, we are reminded on one holiday and then another throughout the Winter that we have meaning. We are loved as human beings and sisters and daughters and Mothers. As we gather with our families and our friends and we count with…
Winter Fields
The trees aside the snowy winter fields have a tragic ethereal skeletal quality. Against gray skies, they’re lacy delicate beautiful. This beauty interrupted, the deer body lays twisted, staring with dead dark eyes into oncoming traffic. Bleak and negative, grays and whites and blacks linear strips of trees stand guard against the open cold air…
Salad For A Winter’s Day : Cannellini Bean and Tuna Salad
It was time again for my cannellini bean and tuna salad, the perfect salad for a Winter’s day. Oil packed tuna, tomato, celery heart, red onion, and calamata olives combine into a meaty refreshing satisfying salad with leftovers. The picture is deceiving. I didn’t leave any on the plate. Tuna, celery, and bean salad Insalata di…
