✨🕯✨ Candlemas 2019 ✨🕯✨

IN PROGRESS!

🕯It has begun!🕯

Candlemas is Saturday, but I started the candle making process tonight!  YEAH!  I am loving this!

Detail of an artist's rendering of a Mercedes-Benz V12 engine

Eric von Hove, of Belgium

     Made with the help of 43 Moroccan artisans, and including yellow copper, nickle-plated copper, 
     mother of pearl, white cedar wood, silver, forged iron, recycled aluminum, cow bone and more.

Snowy Mountain even before the storm

Tolkien-esque Doors!

Hanover NH, by Dartmouth College

I STAND ASTONISHED!

Let me keep company always with those who say
"Look!" and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads. ~ Mary Oliver

As you know, each year on Candlemas (Feb 2nd) I melt down a year's worth of altar candle stubs and spend the day hand-dipping candles. This weekend I went to pick up a boxful of stubs from the church that saves them for me, and was delighted and amazed to find six boxes of candles waiting for me!! (See photos!) I stood there in wonder, amazement, grateful astonishment! I am still reverberating with awe! Joy!

Recently, the altar guild directress was clearing out the storage closet and found 5 boxes of old candles tucked in the back. As they are yellow beeswax, the church had long ago decided not to use them, favouring the usual liturgical white candles (like the stubs). But these are 51% beeswax and excellent quality, and there are dozens of them in each box!!! :-o I'm not sure I can bear to melt them down (at least not all), so I may dip some into various colours of wax, and simply hand decorate others. Along with the 5 boxes was a box of stubs, and on top of the stack was a box with candle decorating wax! That's timely, as soon I will be hand decorating the church's new Paschal Candle.

Happy Sunday

Snow Crystals

What a difference a day makes!

Wednesday                                                               Thursday

     

                                                   Friday

Wild Turkey's Wingspan

Need Ice?

True Sky Blue

Total Lunar Eclipse on MLK Jr Day!

I tried to get a photo at peak, when it was all reddish, but the snow was moving back in and it was too hazy and dark for a photo. But we saw it through to full eclipse. We won't get to watch the second half as the light returns, as it is snowing again.

via Patch.com

During the course of this thread today, please post your favourite MLK, Jr quotes.

More Snow

listener is in the white.  Looks like Cat's in the purple.

Humour Helps

Mitch has met his Match!

That "Mitch, I am"

That "Mitch, I am"

We have to find that "Mitch, I am."

We do not see Mitch on the floor

We see Mitch, not, behind his door

We do not see him in the hall

We do not see him on the mall

We do not see him drafting bills

We see him often schmoozing shills

His PAC's accounts now overflow

Where flacs and hacks dump dirty dough

We don't see Mitch under the dome

He counts his paychecks safe at home.

Mitch waits there for his calls from Kochs

Mitch won't respond to other folks

`Cept Vlad or Oleg if they phone

Then we will see the Mitch they own

We'll see Mitch ask "What can I do?"

To steal more crumbs from me and you

We'll see Mitch serve the oligarch

While hiding safely in the dark.

That "Mitch, I am"

That "Mitch, I am"

He's rich and doesn't give a damn.

~ Carl A. Varady

listener's Road

Winterberry (emphasis on Winter)

So Peaceful

21" of snow, with 10-16" more coming this weekend.

All Fluffed Up