winter light

new work here

have a happy and safe new year's eve friends!

with affection,

liane

from my spot at the computer at the table..

do you know i don't have a passport?!  it's a real crying shame.  i've traveled in canada and been to puerto rico.  i've flown to the west coast and to florida (of all places.  sorry if you live in florida.  where i visited just wasn't for me).  

this year i am gifting myself a passport.  i am a person who needs a passport.

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i am sitting here in the early morning appreciating the cool winter light.  i am also listening to the noises of a sleeping house.  i hear the dog snoring on the sofa, the hum of the refrigerator, lots of scratching in the walls from squirrels and mice making themselves at home.  but mostly i am hearing my daughter sleep fitfully.  i wake her once to ask if she is having a bad dream.  she says no and falls back to sleep.  she goes back to her bad dream and her tossing and turning.  

it took me a long time to realize your kids go lots of places you cannot go.  you can only ask them about it and hope they can tell you.

winter light

i'm happy to say i've been snowshoeing a lot lately including both days this weekend.

first with jason:

then with lisa:

and these monster mutant icicles below did end up taking down the cable line and defunct telephone land line at my house this weekend.  the wires landed in a snowbank and are draped low across the road.  despite phone calls no one's come to fix them.  am i gonna have to get all freaky-deaky in order to get some one over here to put it right??  i practically had a conniption  when i called to let the cable company know the deal because it took 1/2 an hour and push this button for this and select that number for that until i got a live person on the phone.

what's this world coming to and young people these days...

oh and i had to walk to school 10 miles barefoot when i was a kid.

winter light

Winter light can be really beautiful, no? The snow gives a blue cast. Here is a sage and garlic wreath I made in the fall. It was super easy and cost nothing. I used my own garlic and sage and found some old heavy gauge wire in the shed. When I first made it I hung it indoors and it smelled really good. When it dried I hung it by my front door. Also, a picture of some paper whites I planted a month ago. Pretty little things.