Smooth Skating

 We have had the weirdest winter.

Over-all pretty mild.

Barely any snow, in fact, the only show around right now

is the stuff left in frozen piles from the plow.

 The Lakes did freeze early on.

But the ice has been weird and transitional.

I keep checking.

 It rained night before last, seems like all night long.

It was so warm, it rained way up high....Ugh!

But Jim checked the ice (he lives on Savage Lake)

and look at this!

He called me immediately!

 I mostly leave my skate bag in the car at all times,

Just in case!

It is SO difficult to be at work and not out playing on the ice!

As you can see,

I will be delayed getting home every evening

till the weather turns!

Hoping for a clear, cold Friday!

O Tannenbaum!

 It's been a few years since we have had a Christmas Tree.

This year I was, somehow, inspired to put one up.

Mike and I went for a walk out back and brought this one home.

It was nostalgic and fun to get out the boxes of ornaments and fancy up the tree.

Our halls are decked.

We are feeling Festive.

But it is looking like we will be home alone for Christmas!

Plans got changed.

We will celebrate as a family on the Solstice, which is really more usual for us.



Fire in the sky

 This was my drive home last night!

Wow!

I kept pulling over to take fotos.

It started out all pink and purple and then burned

into this crazy fire!

Made me really wish for a fancy camera,

these fotos don't do the scene justice, if you can imagine!

spider web in the light

You know how when the light shines perfectly into your windows
that appeared to be clean,  and you suddenly notice how dirty they are?

Or when the sun shines perfectly on a spider web and you see
it as a masterpiece and then the light shifts a bit and you cannot
see it at all?

And you already know how I feel about light:
Light as in not dark,
Light as in not heavy.
Light changes everything.
Particulary perspectives.
Well, this writing really resonated with me
and I had to share, it is so appropriate
in this season of waning light,
 it is a good reminder for us to SHINE!

"When you shine the light of your attention

on something,
It shimmers and dances and makes itself known to you.
Give your complete attention and
wishes of well-being to another person,

and feel your heart lighten up."

Morning Moonlight

My morning yoga practice takes place here,

when I lie on my mat I look through this HUGE jade plant out the window.

The last several mornings the moon is still fairly high on the horizon

sending this filtered light through the jade plant.

With my point&shoot camera, this is the best I can do,

and nothing captures the feeling, the magic of this scene!

This morning the temp. was 11° and somehow the light changes at that temp.

It was stunning!

Light

"From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but that light is all."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reflections of light from a beach in Maine.

Light

More morning and evening walking commute to yoga class has been in the dark untill this last module,
now there is light during both legs of the journey. It is much different. I love the feel of the mornings and I really did like the darkness and the duskyness, but the light is ok too.
I do love the glow of this lamp in the park. For some reason, this one was different from the rest and the foto really captured the true glow.