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Wordless Wednesday
Category: Winter
Welcome March!
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Wordless Wednesday: Peonies in February
Winter Wednesday
It’s cold. And changing my antidepressant from Cymbalta (which was helping my fibromyalgia but had quit helping my depression) to Fetzima (vice versa) isn’t helping my grumpy mood any. I have developed strange food cravings (carbs, sugar, and more carbs) and I am frighteningly grateful for cable TV and Law & Order reruns.
A Hot Chocolate Kind of Day. And the Super Bowl Thing.
A snowy, chilly, February Saturday…I’ve spent the afternoon snuggling with Fiona (our cocker spaniel) on the couch, drinking hot chocolate–with lots of marshmallows, of course–and reading my new book about the Nazi Occupation of Paris, Les Parisiennes: Resistance, Collaboration, and the Women of Paris Under Nazi Occupation, by Anne Sebba. I love it so far, and highly recommend it, Sebba has an engaging narrative style that truly makes her prose come to life.
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Wordless Wednesday
Saying goodbye to January…best feeling in weeks–since January first, to be exact!
January Snow
Snow was falling
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was
nothing more
than prettiness–Mary Oliver
Wordless Wednesday (But Not Really)
We have just endured several weeks of a painful cold snap here in Minnesota–you know, the kind that makes your face hurt every time you go outside, and a high temperature that straggles above zero degrees Fahrenheit is cause for celebration? One member of our little family, however, is a champion at keeping warm. It’s a dog’s life, as the saying goes.
Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday
Today, believe it or not, is the last day of fall here in the Northern Hemisphere. (Yes, technically it’s still autumn.) In Minnesota today it feels emphatically Northern, I might add. Here are a few images from our first snowfall in Minneapolis back on November third to ease your transition from fall to winter.
Life is Grace 