M E R R Y 🌺 C H R I S T M A S !

 

🌟🎄 Christmas Eve 🎄🌟

After a subzero night, Bluebirds at the feeders!

Rugelach

 

Fourth Sunday of Advent

 

💜🌲💛🎄💙🌲💚

 

Snowy River

 

The S.D, Ireland cement mixer cruising the neighbourhood spreading cheer

 

Gotta remember that line...

 

The Ticonderoga decked out in Winter Lights

 

HUH?

 

Rooting for the Sorceress!

 

The Sorceress Prevails!

 

That’s VT*Grand as the Sorceress in the Opera 

Dido & Aeneas

Of course the Sorceress prevails…it opened on 

Friday the 13th! 

Performance tonight too.

Moon's Up! (I took this photo at Winter Lights at the Shelburne Museum)

 

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum

 

Blight

 

Freezing Fog

 

Scene Beside the Christmas Tree Farm

 

Snowflake Chocolates on a Rainy Day

 

Birdbox in Snow

 

Tufted Titmouse

 

Robin in the Winterberry

 

Bluejay in the Serviceberry

 

Red-Bellied Woodpecker (female)

 

WICKED

 

puddle posted this on her Facebook page on 25 SEPT 2014

 Shougo Yokota

"Diphylleia grayi" (Skeleton flower)

The petals turn transparent with the rain.

Welcome, December! 🎄

 

There Goes November!

 

Bluejay

 

Happy Thanksgiving! 🥧

What are you Thankful for today?

 

😋 It's Pie Day! 🥧

 

Chickadee

 

Hay, it's Dinnertime!

 

Chip T. Sheep

 

Gingersnap T. Sheep

 

Cookies T. Sheep

 

NW Bomb Cyclone

      Precipitation

                                                                    WIND SPEED up to 49mph

         WIND GUSTS UP TO 78mph

                                                          Pressure got down to 949mb ~ CAT 4 Hurricane strength

                                          It's HUGE

 

OOPS! SORRY TO BE LATE!

FRODO: I can’t do this, Sam. SAM: I know. It’s all wrong.

By rights we shouldn’t even be here.

But we are.

It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo.

The ones that really mattered.

Full of darkness

and danger they were.

And sometimes

you didn’t want to know the end.

Because how could the end be happy.

How could the world

go back to the way it was

when so much bad had happened.

But in the end,

it’s only a passing thing, this shadow.

Even darkness must pass.

A new day will come.

And when the sun shines

it will shine out the clearer.

Those were the stories

that stayed with you.

That meant something.

Even if you were too small

to understand why.

But I think, Mr. Frodo,

I do understand.

I know now.



Folk in those stories

had lots of chances

of turning back

only they didn’t.

Because they were

holding on to something.

FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam?

SAM: That there’s some good

in this world, Mr. Frodo.

And it’s worth fighting for.

Red-Bellied Woodpecker

 

Late Autumn in Vermont: Camel's Hump Mountain

 

Brokenness

KINTSUGI is the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold. It renders the mended pottery worth more than it was worth before it broke. Be gold for the broken ones.