Hi There, March!

 

Buh Bye, February!

Snow Moon rising over Mount Mansfield

by Cathy Baker Hudson (used with permission)

She who reconciles the ill-matched threads

                                                 Wer Seines Lebens Viele Widersinne

                                                                             She who reconciles the ill-matched threads
                                                                                              of her life, and weaves them gratefully
                                                                                into a single cloth —
                                                                              it’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall
                                                                            and clears it for a different celebration

                                                                       where the one guest is you.
                                                                     In the softness of evening
                                                                   it’s you she receives.
 
                                                                You are the partner of her loneliness,
                                                              the unspeaking center of her monologues.
                                                            With each disclosure you encompass more
                                                          and she stretches beyond what limits her,
                                                        to hold you.

                                                                         ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Created by Emily Watters...

 

Mount Mansfield in Late Winter

In One Year...

 

Vermont View

 

In between those near hills in Vermont and those far hills in New York

lies (hidden here) Lake Champlain.  

EGGS, Anyone?

 

         VT*Grand is raising chickens who lay colourful eggs!

White:  Huden

Blue:  Ameraucana

Green:  Easter Egger

Pinkish Tan:  Buff Orpington

Dusky Brown: Olive Egger

Dark Brown:  Black Copper Maran

Roses in February

🎉HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SUSAN!!! 🌺

Can't exactly read the number on this cake 

... 20? 50? ... but no matter, because it's 

Perfect for our sewing Susan!!  

Sending Love and Sweet Wishes for a truly lovely day!!  

We appreciate you, Susan! 

Icy Morning

                                                          ~ photo by Keri Marie of Pittsford, Vermont (used with permission)
 

VT*Grand getting a snow tow

                                                                                                                                ~photo by DIL

First photo from Mars today...

                                            ~ NASA / JPL Caltech

Ash Wednesday: Choosing Joy for Lent

https://pixabay.com/photos/relief-stone-angel-music-266048/

Sunset

 

Sorry, America is Closed

                            

Valentine’s Day ❤️

Guilty

 

Happy Chinese New Year ✧ Year of the Ox

Received a Lucky Coin from good friends in California
who observe the Chinese New Year!
It represents gratitude and a wish for our longevity
and for good luck in the coming year. So kind!
Happy Year of the Ox!

Sunny Day

 

Starling

 

Impeachment 2.0

 

Snow

                     

 

Feel the Barn (LOL)

                                                        Vermont photo by Ellen Goodman
 

Bolton Mountain

The Bernie Mittens Painting story...

Wendy Windbeckler 28 January I have to share the touching story about my Bernie Sanders painting that I shared on my timeline... because it brought tears to my eyes.

A few days ago I auctioned the Bernie mittens painting with proceeds going to Meals on Wheels.There were three people that bid on the painting.

The $125 bid won out & the very generous bidder sent me a photo of the receipt from Meals on Wheels & said he wanted me to send the painting to the other people, a couple, that bid on it, he felt they should have it, not him.

I contacted them with the surprising good news. As it turns out they were not bidding on the painting for themselves. The wife has a dear friend that has cancer & she was bidding on it to give to her as a gift.

So now I will mail the Bernie painting directly to her friend who will love having the Bernie smitten with mittens painting.

Call it what you will...paying it forward... generosity... a blessing... instinct... serendipity... synchronicity...

It looks like Love in action to me.

Thank you so much my generous friends for the love you share.

The Green Mountains in Winter

 

Candlemaking

             

The funny thing this year was that the cans of white, blue and pink wax were all heated in the same pan at the same time.  Yet the white candles are smooth, while the pink are a little bumpy and the blue is crazy bumpy.  I think the white is a higher quality wax.  Ah, but the yellow off to the left is such a high quality beeswax that it melts at a higher temperature and is a bit thicker wax.  Also, note in the photos above that the yellow candles are already done, though all the colours have had the same number of dips. 

It's Candlemas!! (And Groundhog Day)

 

Welcome February

AHA! [And there goes January!]

With thanks to Alan...

Mask Up!

 

Following public health guidelines is smart and patriotic. There's no reason it can't be fun too.

Shabbat Shalom

Snow Imminent

 

O Captain, My Captain

Lake Champlain in Winter

US NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT

We were finally able to get a good image of Lake Champlain today with full sunshine throughout the day. No surprise, but the ice coverage is well below the past several years given the mild winter thus far. Check out the images to compare this year to 2019 and 2020!

 

Deliciously Delightful Bernie

Bernie is outta this world!

NEWSFLASH! (click!) 
Jen Ellis, who made Bernie's Mittens, has partnered with a supplier who will make the mittens! (The link includes where to get the mittens, and the sweatshirt as well! All proceeds go to Meals on Wheels.)

 

                                                                   Astronaut Jessica Meir, who posted this! 

A few of our favourite things...

by Vermonter Delene Darcel. $30

               Schooner Columbia               Whale Tail by my marine biologist niece Dianna