Finding Photo Ops~~~Snow~~~Quotes~~~

More picture taking fun...  It's too cold to go out and take pictures...  So I am left with what I can "imagine," inside.  :-)

Yes, this is of outside.  But taken, just opening the patio door and aiming the camera OUT.  ,-)  Put the inside Halloween pumpkin...  Out back.  I can keep taking pics of it, as it goes through the winter.   Sooooo....  Be aware...  You are gonna' see more of this little pumpkin, if you keep visiting here.   -grin-

More pic-taking-fun...  Looking for sparkles, in reflections, in glass.

 

"Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again."

                       ~Bill Morgan, Jr.

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Oh, the above quote...  About winter coming...  "Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow"    Oh I love the "word-picture", this paints.  And I could go-off on a tangent of finding pictures, illustrating 'snow faeries' and etc.  :-))))))))))

And then, there is that old poem/song...  "Oh The First Snow Fall Of The Winter..."   That's pretty.  

And... "Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood."  Andy Goldsworthy  

  “Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.”  Jean Webster, 'Daddy-Long-Legs' ......  

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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And last but not least...   

"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."   

Mae West

 

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Here and there, around the house... PLEASE WATCH!!!

PLEASE WATCH THIS!!!!
I guarantee you will have happy tears in your eyes, when you do!!!!!!!

Candle, on kitchen island...
 

Looking at doorway, from den, into front room...

Over kitchen table, into hearth room wall...

Looking at door, from kitchen, into den...

Den window, looking at evening star...

"Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone." 
--Deborah Whipp 

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Faerie light reflection, in kitchen island top...

-smile-  Just little candle...

Morning, looking out window, over sink...

Reflections in den windows, at twilight...

Again, the "Cranberry Woods" candle, sitting on a doily...

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"Yes Gabriel, there will be a little train, around "Pop's" Christmas Tree..."

We seem to have the perfect Holiday Time Snow. 

 Just enough to cover a bit.

But not so much, to disrupt much.  And since it's stayed c-o-l-d, what little we got, has stayed.  Making a pretty cover...  I really love to have a bit of snow cover, at Christmas/Yule time.

Today is hair trim day.  I think I will "abandon" the Pixie cut, and go all the way (back) to the Judi Dench cut.  ,-)  But if I do, I must wear it with Attitude.  -chuckle-  I've done it before.  I can do it again!

 Remember "Elves With Attitude" from "The Santa Clause" movie?
("We're your worst nightmare, Elves With Attitude.")  
  Or, if you prefer, you can think of...

...THIS Elf With Attitude.  -giggggles- 

"There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions."  ~Bill McKibben

Photo Phunnnnn....  Trying to get pics of faerie lights, which appear diffused and fuzzy.

Guess what?  There will be a toy train, around the Christmas tree!  We got another one.  After all...  When one is 80, they should have a working toy train...  To share with their 3 year old GrandSon, next door.  :-))))))

More kind-of-diffused light from faerie lights...

Pie...Snow...Quote...Header...Pondering...Etc.

Mincemeat Pie

But did you ever see a Mincemeat Pie, like this????

I didn't feel like making a lattice top...  So I took a champagne glass and cut out some holes, in top crust.  -giggles-  Ho, ho, ho...

This time we did get some snow.  And now, some sort of precipitation is falling.
 

"The days are short, 

the weather's cold, 

by tavern fires 

tales are told."
~New England Almanac, Dec. 1704~

I changed my Header pic, over the weekend.  I'm growing to love this choice, now.  :-)  Of course, I usually "love" whatever Header pic, I have up.  For a while, anyway.

This picture seems to be of a store window exhibit...  With little "dolls" placed about.  The window and tree size, are rather super-sized.  And this effect, is charming.

But...

You know what ISN'T charming?  

In all the illustrations of old fashioned family gatherings, the rich are enjoying themselves.  And the "downstairs" people, are serving them.  After a while, I notice this.  And the reality of it, is ......  not-so-nice.

If the serving class was being well paid, then that would be a different matter.  But it wasn't so, in these lovely old fashioned times, we see illustrated... 

Little bird decoration, which we've had for a long time...

And a little old bear, which we've had for a long time, also.

This and that... On Dec. 8th...

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Have you ever made Mincemeat Tarts?  I make Mincemeat Pie for my husband.  But would like to try Tarts, sometime...  They look so cute.

The weather report missed, for Fri. night.  They said we could get 1-3 inches of snow.  Nope.  Just a little.  And it's all gone, by (Sat.) afternoon.

My 2014 calendar came...  That was a good thing, today.

"It is good to be children some times, 
and never better than at Christmas."
~Charles Dickens~

But my husband's little toy train set, will not be up, this Season.  He has tried everything, and he can not get it to work.  Soooooooo....   Out it goes.  And he is kind of "bumbed out."  :-)  It was so cute.  Little "Grandson" next door, used to love watching it.  Etc.

But since it won't work...  And since we have to get the ding-dang-tree up, we have to "step back and punt."

Below...

NOT, NOT, NOT my house!!!

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This picture is from "Between Naps On The Porch" blog.  As my click-able Source link above, says.  

I posted it, because it is soooooo gorgeous.  Oh sigh.  Oh my.  Oh sigh.  :-))))

Of course, there are so many simply breath-taking interior photos on the Net, this Holiday Season.  :-)

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