In my backyard | 8.25.23
Learning to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance. — Morgan Freeman In August I savored the stillness... the bird song has slowed. Gone is the territorial songs marking nesting territories so it seems that the birds, as...
Loving February | 2.14.20
February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again. - Sara Coleridge Rain. Rain mixed with snow. Snow. Snow mixed with rain. And now bitter cold. Yet, lengthening days and increasing birdsong hold the promise that spring is coming, even if it does not feel like it...
Unraveled Wednesday | 2.12.20
Socks, hat pompoms, and increases every fourth row described my knitting this week! No actual finishes, but lots of progress none the less! I went with a friend to see Knives Out! last Wednesday and I managed to get the leg of my second sock done. And, a few bits of...
Sometimes Monday | 2.10.20
Brings sunshine on slender green stems! Our wintry blast from last week has been ushered out by warming temps and lots of rain. The robins seem most gleeful as they hop around in the back yard. It was a quiet weekend here, and sometimes that is exactly what was...
Loving February | 2.7.20
February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like. Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie Friday's in February will focus on finding things to love about a month that for me is an "in-between month" - it's not quite spring and not quite winter, although...
Unraveled Wednesday | 2.5.20
Greetings Unravelers! How are we five days into February already?! Is it me or did time suddenly just speed up drastically? Sadly, my knitting has not taken the same turn and in fact it all feels quite January-like as I slough through these rows! Sorry for the...
Looking Back | January 2020
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. — Ralph Waldo Emerson The Best Part of the Month: Realizing that there was more sunshine than it felt like. January is long, and it felt so sunless and seeing that there were...
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