The Bluebirds Are Still Visiting!

 

Mills Woodland Falls

 

Mill River (actually called Browns River)

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Observed (his birthday was yesterday)

 

New Monument to Martin Luther King, Jr and Coretta Scott King unveiled in Boston!  Our Nephew, who lives in Charlestown (in walking distance to Boston Common, sent a video this weekend and "The Embrace" sculpture was included! 

                                                                                                                               photo credit NBC

Read more about it here:  

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/15/us/mlk-coretta-embrace-memorial-boston-trnd

                                                                                                   photo credit New York Times

The Mill Falls From Behind

 

Out Behind the Mill

 

Mill Falls

 

The Old Red Mill (which houses the Snowflake Bentley exhibit)

 

Mill Top

 

Slate Rooftop, with Gingerbread

 

SUNDAY/MONDAY?

My sincerest apologies for completely missing that I needed to add more posts!  DUH!  I have a whole bunch of new photos to offer too!  Can you tell my Sunday was a bit catawumpus?  It relates to a meeting I have on Monday morning in which it looked like I might end up being both Convenor and Presenter, as others in the group had crises looming.  But, thankfully, that's been sorted. I will be Presenting and another will Convene.

Cold Starling in the Lilac

 

🌟🐱🌟Happy Birthday, Catreona! 🕯🥳🕯

 

🌟🥳🌟 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RENEE!! ✨💖✨

 

Say Cheese! (Red-Breasted Nuthatch)

 

Tufted Titmouse in the Winterberry

 

Dove in the Crabapple

 

🌟☃️🌟 W E L C O M E 🌟 2 0 2 3 ! 🌟☃️🌟

 

🌀 It's New Year's Eve! 🌀 GoodBye 2022! 🌀

No Worries, that's a bonfire, not a barn fire (at Eldest's house).

Phantom Galaxy

(Who needs fireworks when we have James Webb Space Telescope photos?) 

YUMMY!

 

Don’t Make Us Send The Flying Monkeys!

The ornament was made by DIL who illustrated Wil's book. 

The Emerald City is on one side
and a flying Monkey on the other. 
I commissioned her to create this
long before she was asked to work on the book!

  

 

50 Years

50 Years ago today, Wil and listener got engaged. 💛💛

Let's Go Sledding!

Bluebird in Winter

 

Merry Christmas! 🎄 Happy Chanukah! 🕯

Christmas Eve Bluebirds, after a Rainbow!

Like Sweet Miracles:
In the middle of the high wind and driving rain yesterday, 
this Rainbow appeared for about 5 minutes.
Not only have we never seen a Winter rainbow here in 40 years of living here (and it was to the west, when usually they appear to our east), we were just visited by some Bluebirds! We haven't had Bluebirds here in YEARS, even in Summer!

 

Christmas Eve 🌟

 

Winter as Crucible

Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximising scant resources, carrying out acts of brutal efficiency and vanishing from sight; but that’s where the transformation occurs. Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.

~ Katherine May: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times 

(With thanks to the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids)

[Art: Anna Speshilova]

It's Winter! ☃️

 

Solstice! ☀️ Hey, puddle, the days are going to lengthen now!

 Solstice occurs at 4:47pm today!

 

Indoor Tree 🎄

            

❅ Happy Chanukah! 🕯 (Are you lighting a Menorah this week?)

O Christmas Tree

Mmmm...Cookies!

 These were made by Daughter, using jam preserved by Maine*DIL.

OOPS!

 

A friend of mine sent me this, that she found on Facebook. 

It's just the most amazing photograph, having caught that moment. I think this would make a far more interesting album photo than the typical cutting of the cake photo!  Somehow you just have to laugh. (And send out for ice cream, maybe?)

Blue Sky Pre-Storm

 

Dollhouse Christmas Tree 🎄

   

The Feast of St. Lucia

 

Splashdown!

                                                                                                  ~ via CNN

Christmas Village alight! 🎄