Cold Starling in the Lilac
Saturday, January 07, 2023
Friday, January 06, 2023
Thursday, January 05, 2023
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Tuesday, January 03, 2023
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Saturday, December 31, 2022
🌀 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?)
Friday, December 30, 2022
Thursday, December 29, 2022
Don’t Make Us Send The Flying Monkeys!
The ornament was made by DIL who illustrated Wil's book.
and a flying Monkey on the other.
I commissioned her to create this
long before she was asked to work on the book!
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Tuesday, December 27, 2022
Monday, December 26, 2022
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Saturday, December 24, 2022
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!
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!
Friday, December 23, 2022
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]
Thursday, December 22, 2022
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
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