Last night I took the dogs out at bedtime. The wind had hushed. Icicles glittered from the eaves. But there was something else . . . Snowflakes were caught in spider filaments. I had never seen anything like this before. I was enchanted. I know this last one looks like a plastic ornament from the dimestore, […]
Yesterday morning I walked through the blue light and swirling shadows I remember from childhood winters. I rummaged through the attic and sure enough I found some childhood imagination. And unlike everything else I’ve packed away in there, it still fits. I saw a family of iguanas climbing a tree, a dancer reaching for a […]
On Friday Katherine wrote: Was walking from the kitchen into the garage with my camera and the sun came out for 2 seconds this morning. By the time I went into the living roomto get another photo, it was gone. I believe I saw that patch of sun too, Katherine – it flickered through the deck […]
Cheri Leach and I had planned to get together for breakfast today, but last night she wrote, I don’t know what the roads will be like tomorrow morning, but I am either making up a day in a school OR trying to catch up on paperwork. Let’s look for a time that isn’t so snowy!! […]
We had a perfectly lovely walk this morning once we managed to find the road. We are working on a new board game called “Where’s Cowboy?” and spent some time taking pictures for that. It was a fairly monochromatic day, so it was no hardship to go off to the other day job, where I spent […]
When Miss Sadie and the Cowboy woke me up this morning, the predicted blizzard was here. We went out to get the paper. So far, so good: my Record-Eagle was in its bright green holder. Dean Peters must drive a tank. I headed back to the house, assuming that the prospect of breakfast would bring the dogs right along […]
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