december moon and snow!

snow'd the 25th, 26th and 27th...was too cloudy to see the eclipse on the solstice but the full moon was visible earlier...still semi-trapped at home due to impassible driveway...

novermber moon

meet daisy mae clemmentine...the newest furry resident

full moon october 2010

max patch bald

the moon and the leaves

the moon last night

the leaves this afternoon

morning pictures

taken this morning around 8am...cold and foggy, with ice on the windshield of the car.

belated J birthday

pineapple upside-down cake...made last year from scratch but this year i used a standard white cake box mix

and flowers...what birthday would be complete without flowers?

a good thrifting haul

lovely plate made in italy



two cones of yarn: the left is shetland wool and the right is cotton

the waxing september moon

list

things to do today (and perhaps for the week):
make up bed
feed cats
clean up after cats (an on-going, through-out-the-day process)
thread loom
begin putting norwood loom together
try new arrangement in livingroom
clean ceiling fans
vacuum
finish reading nytimes
email J

sunday haiku

the new york times on

sunday with Autumn sunshine

perfect and peaceful

mr t

i didn't do it. the other four furry beasts did but not me. ever.

yesterday...

...i noticed it was really beginning to look a bit Fall-like...

birds

cardinal, taken last winter in our boxwood

reading about cordelia stanwood today in birdwatching with american wome: a selection of nature writings edited by deborah strom. picked up the book from the annual library book sale. cordelia's story is both inspirational and sad. makes me want to wear ankle-length skirts and go out in the pasture and draw birds.

pictures

july moon



august moon with clouds





morning glory

before the one hundred days

the "altar" in my bathroom (please excuse the toothpaste and cat hair)

i've not been on here in quite a bit. things, meaning life with its ups and downs, seems to have kicked my backside quite a bit in the interval. in the last few days, however, i've come across a very interesting and honest blogger who is posting a one hundred days diary of sorts about change for the good. i thought that perhaps i shall do the same. but i want the last one hundred days of the year, beginning on september 23rd (i think. even if my calculations are a bit off, i've always done "interesting math to my own drum beat" as one of my math teachers told me).

so this is a pre-one hundred days post. i wanted to show my bathroom "altar." it's a candle, a brown river rock and a set of windchimes with the sun on one side and the moon on the other (light half of the year and the dark half of the year).

so. we'll see where this goes.

2010 biodiversity reading challenge

i'm signing up for the 2010 biodiversity reading challenge hosted by sylvia at classical bookworm...if any feels like participating, please go on over and sign up!