Conversation during Christmas dinner was varied, however, we did talk a lot about books and movies. Our guest is a great reader and she is reading through the classics, which I have started to do as well. She is currently reading Middlemarch, while I’m reading The Sun Also Rises – probably not a lot in […]
…Well, yes, this is what one would expect, however, I don’t think that anyone expected this. We were out for a walk, finally!! I was beginning to feel pretty “Cabin Fevered” because of the weather. The ice storm had made walking very treacherous and the extra three or four inches of fresh snow on top
The sun was out Dec 24 and our world sparkled. Diamonds now encrusted the tree limbs and shone so brightly they hurt your eyes. I tried to capture some of the magic, but my photography skills are limited and I couldn’t get the brilliance without the dark. Here are a few pictures, however, you will
Last night it snowed on top of all the ice. Fortunately it wasn’t a heavy snow, just a light dusting and it is pretty. That is of course, if you have power and fortunately we do. It’s a yin and yang situation – we have power because over the years most of the lovely tall
We are slowly recovering from a devastating ice storm on Sunday. Thousands of homes are still without power and most of the traffic lights at the main intersections are not working. Toronto is in chaos. However, there were errands to run and things to do, so I had to get into my car and get
The other day I posted about trying to replace a Christmas ornament, which we had had in the house for 30 years. It was a angel with lights that we put at the top of our tree. Having gone to several stores without any luck, I finally settled for a gold star. Well, wouldn’t you
We had an ice storm last night. Unfortunately the sun is not out today, or we would really be sparkling. Imagine this tree in sunshine. This is a very old Maple weighted down with ice. An interlace of Lilac and Forsythia A close up Another close up If the sun comes out, I’ll take some
So I set out yesterday to find an angel. I actually prefer it when they come to me. But this doesn’t happen often and it rarely happens on demand, so I had to go out there and find one!! Why? because I happened to have destroyed, an angel that we have had in our house
Yesterday, I started to write and it was so dark and grey that I couldn’t get past the first sentence. 1. The sky was grey – the pale grey that designers paint on walls and call it cool. It was cool alright. In fact, it was freezing!! 2. It was raining too. Those lovely white
I was raised in a entrepreneurial family. They were never very successful, but they earned every penny they spent and were never accorded “benefits,” “pensions,” etc. We were lucky our teeth grew in “fairly straight,” because there was no money for cosmetics. We were lucky also that we didn’t require expensive meds, because there wasn’t a
