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
A fellow blogger, Roy Ackerman commented on this post, so I decided to read it. Well it was endorsed by a reputable source 🙂 The post is a response to a challenge, so I am doing it myself and passing it on – 99 Things I love – 1. Photography 2. Poetry 3. Walking 4. Gadgets
I have always looked out of windows. In fact I wish I had a collection of all the places I have been and the pictures from those windows. There is something very simple and yet profound about recording the here and now, as you contemplate the world from your window on it. Mashable posted a
I was writing in an earlier post about an encounter in a cemetery the other day. It was a little freaky. It had nothing to do with ghosts and everything to do with an orange parka, go figure 🙂 I was, at that point, going to make an allusion to several characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
