new photos!
This morning's sunrise: clouds in the east, Pike's Peak to the west... https://flic.kr/ps/rhS1C Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, January 7, 2021
New day: the project continues...
The sky was red and gold this morning, and there was I, scurrying from one sside of the house to the other with my little camera! Photos will be up later. Meanwhile, my St Patrick project advances... There needs to be blurb and a bit of bio material for the back cover. What do you think of it what I've come up with? A Fable of an Ireland that might have been, of beauty and kindness, of wisdom and grace-- and just a touch of the Old Magic! About the Author... Photographer, writer, poet of a... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Exciting news!
You may recall, some while back I shared a little fable I'd written regarding how Saint Patrick got the last of the snakes out of Ireland. http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/927874 Well, now it is going to be a little book, illustrated by Olivia Wylie, a talented artist who excels at Celtic style design. She has some books of her own available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Olivia-Wylie/e/B07G67WZKC%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share In particular, note her TRIADS OF IRELAND. She is a... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, January 1, 2021
Turning a new page, opening a new book...
Wishing happiness to all my Blogit friends, and blessings and luck in the New Year! I am ready to turn that page, but at some moments, the exhaustions of the last months, years even, are still weighing me down. So today I will take it easy, and not require much of myself. I spent hours of this previous week putting my house in better order, and finished last night with a full cleaning of the cat box so Embers has something to be pleased about, too. The New Year's fireworks flying off the top of... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, December 28, 2020
Snowday, so they say...
According to the weather forecast, there is 15% chance of no precipitation today. According to the weather map, it is already snowing right here in this neighborhood. But seems to me, the 15% is winning. Kind of the opposite of the guy who called his local weatherman to inform him, "I've just shoveled 18 inches of 'partly cloudy' off my driveway!" The kitchen clean-up came first thing this morning, because it is a small patch, the area where I make my coffee. It has a dubious electrical outlet,... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, December 27, 2020
cleaning up after 2020
Today suddenly became the day to deep-clean the kitchen. It happens incrementally, the one-step-at-a-time strategy until it's all done. There's still a ways to go, but every bit accomplished feels very satisfying! Laundry is getting done, too. It's something about the last days of the year, the last chance to start a new year fresh. Some years I think about it, but never get around to bothering. This year, though, I find myself wanting to do it, not for any possible visitors to the house, since... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, December 26, 2020
The Yule Forest Primeval
This is what happens when you let Charlie decide the decorations... https://flic.kr/s/aHsmSJXKEm We had a very quiet, low-key day that was about the lights and artistry and the tasty food, and our far-flung family meeting on a live video call. (There are screen-shots of the family, but those are not for sharing without permissions all around.) On Christmas Eve, we all got together there to share some readings of kids' Christmas books and poems. Yesterday we gathered again to share the opening of... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Christmas Eve...
I woke this morning with the wind blowing and gusting outside the glass door by my bed which I leave slightly a-gape even in winter: I just sleep better with fresh air! Sun was well up by 8, and the day looks like a sunny one and is forecast to be not quite as cold as yesterday. While I went through the last cuddles with the warm blankets, I listened to Beethoven's First Symphony. Later, I'll hear the Second and Third, and work my way through to the Ninth by this evening. It's a new tradition... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
The Musics of Christmas...
High winds blew a cold wave in, but the winds are ceasing early this afternoon, and the cold will be dispersing over the end of the week to a warm Sunday forecast. Heh... last summer, a 60F day was chilly! I have to confess without shame, I really don't like modern Christmas music. In fact, it makes me cringe, most of it is so tone-deaf to how so many Americans actually experience the holidays. I hate that all its giggly happy promises are played in malls and stores, setting up kids for... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
morning mystery
I woke this morning around 6 AM, and though there was still that tugging to go back to sleep, several things got me out of bed. A couple were biologic, and one was the knowledge that getting up and looking outside before dawn has its rewards. Today, it was seeing a grey-cloud streaked sky, slightly blushing with the coming dawn, and shining brightly in a space between the clouds, Venus! And those blushing clouds promised a pretty sunrise within the hour. So I went about morning business, making... Sign in to see full entry.