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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In need of warming... :-)))

My sleepy little Mouse, which I've had for a long time.  Awwwww, I think  he is just so cute.  And he reminds me of a favorite Christmas Time book....

"Mr. Willoby's Christmas Tree."

This may well have been a book, which I first learned of, on the old tv program "Captain Kangaroo."

Now there is "an old chestnut."  ,-)  Yes, I'm so "olden," that my kids watched "Capt. Kanagaroo"!

Oh I am so cold.  No, it's not really cold in our house.  My saying is; "I'm too old to be cold."  But still, it seems to be a state of mind, with me.  So I sit here with my afternoon coffee...

...in a pretty white scalloped tea cup....  And open up my "Flower Fairies of The Winter" book.

Who would not be warmed, by The Song of the Holly Fairy?

And look how cozy and sweet, is the Fairy illustration, of The Song of The Old-Man's-Beard Fairy...  Don't you just want to cuddle him, and sing him a lullaby....?  :-)

And look at the precious Christmas Tree Fairy!

"A dolly-fairy stands on top,
Till children sleep;  then she
(A live one now!) from bough to bough
Goes gliding silently.
O magic sight, this joyous night!
O laden, sparkling tree!"

There!  That's better!  Between my warm cup of afternoon coffee, and precious Flower Fairies of the Winter, I'm warmed up now!  :-)

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Blogging theme questions...

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Searching again, for blogs which love/display magical thinking and whimsey and faeries, etc.  Really the only one I have found, which balances out all these things...  Is Cielo's.  I first found her "The House In The Roses" blog, and loved it.  She has moved and now writes in "The Here And Now" blog. 

Faerie lights
  
 Her way of blogging is the best example, of this.  And hers, seems to be about the only example of what I love.  -sigh-  Am I the only one, who just loves her blog(s)? 

No, because people comment in her blogs.  But does anyone else, want to write/picture a blog, in a (somewhat) similar way?

Yes, I do.  But I'm not nearly so talented.    I try.  Without anywhere near her success.  But, I do try.

Are there others out there, like me?  Who love these aspects of blogging?  And if so, why haven't I found them?

 Are there any others, who would love to even try, but don't? 

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December 1st... About the Celebration...

Some decorating done...  Even the mantle (above) isn't fully done, but it looks colorful and bright with Faerie Lights. 

The collection of hand-carved Santas...  Which my husband has made, over the years.  Wooden decorations are nice.  They won't break, over the packed-away-time.  :-)

I love sweet old fashioned Christmas illustrations!

This post is sparse.  I've been composing another "Sometimes I Write" Page entry, though.  On the topic of "The Celebration Of This Time Of Year"...

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If you care to read it, you may click on this link....

Thank you. 

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Book...Decorating...Question...

Another delightfully illustrated book, by Elsa Bedskow.  Oh these drawings make me want to draw some, just like them...  Myself.

My Header (the silhouette) is from inside this book..

I finally finished decorating my mantel.  And a good thing that is.  It's close to Thanksgiving.  And when it gets close to a holiday, I get *antsy* to change decorations.

-grin-  My bad.  I know.  Don't rush the Seasons.  Don't rush seasonal decorating.  Do not rush the Turning of the Wheel of the Year.  It turns fast enough, as is.  Or seems to.... 

Where are you, on this matter?  Content to stay in the current holiday mode, until it is over?  Get *fidgetty* to change decorations, early?  Or maybe, the very opposite....  Tend to be *later* than *everyone* else, with your holiday decorating?

There are no wrong answers.  We each do, what we do, and that's fine.

And I actually put something up on my Page of "Sometimes I Write." 
 For if you have the time and inclination.  We are all busy, I know.

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Finding a *perfect-now*, Blog Look... :-)))

I'm not really happy-happy, with my present blog look...  The little flowered fabric pic, which I made into a Background...  And the bare Apple Pie.  Plus the candle and autumnal leaves decorations...

The fabric picture was much prettier, when I found it...  Than it is, as a Background.  -Harrumph-  It was.  It really was.  -sigh-

And I'm not happy with my Side Bar either...
 

I need my blog look, to jump out at me and make me very, very happy.....  When I look in at my blog.  I'm funny that way.  ,-)

 Well, I'll just have to poke around, and find a "look" I really like, and make/use it. I'd better hurry up though...  Wednesday I have to have an old cracked tooth removed.  I don't think I'll care much, what my blog looks like, the rest of that day.  -grin-

"Tasha Tudor Time"...

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It's "Tasha Tudor Time"...  Yet again... 

When "the exsecramentum hits the rotating wind device," in one's neck of the woods, it really helps to delve into "Tasha Tudor Time," or "Tasha Tudor Mode."

Who is Tasha Tudor, some might ask...?  Please click on this link-->  Who is Tasha Tudor?

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Tasha was many things.  All of which, she chose to be.  She lived her life, as she wished.  Hard at times, yes.  But.......  As she wished.   To me, that is her most wonderful legacy.
  

When "the exsecramentum hits the rotating wind device," in one's neck of the woods........  What do I mean, by this??????????   Well, I wrote a post, first thing, but decided not to post it, on the front of my blog.  I put it in "Pages," which can be found by looking down, to the bottom of my Side Bar.  ("Sometimes I rant")  If you wonder, what "had my knickers in a twist", you can find out there.  Or not.  Your choice. 

Hunker down! November is upon us!

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"Now in November, the leaves spread a cloth of gold and red on the ground.  The open fields take on a cinnamon tone and the wild blackberry canes in the swamp are frosted purple.  The colors fade slowly to sober hues.  The rain falls with determination in long leaden lines, and when it stops, water drips from the eaves."

Gladys Taber

"The Best Of Stillmeadow"

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November can be a tricky month...  Nature is really settling down now, for a long winter's nap.  All of last Season, is being blown away, matting under foot, or completely harvested.  -sigh-

 Come the rains, the gray skies, the wind, the rather gloomy outlook.

 Sooooooooooooo, it's best to hunker down inside.  Make your own nest, as warm and cozy and comfy as you can.  Have a fire in the fireplace...  Lots of throws around, to put over one's knees, or wrap one's self in...  Some knitting beside your favorite chair...  Along with lovely books to pick up...  Pretty candles, warmly scented, if one's nose will allow scent in the home...

 Something baking in the oven....  Something bubbling on top of the stove...  Something slowly cooking, in the Crock Pot...

Warmth...  Comfort...  Coziness...  These we seek, when November rolls around.

Please share your own plans, for keeping the Nov. doldrums at bay...  :-)

"I am excessively fond of a cottage;

there is always so much comfort,

so much elegance about them."

~Jane Austin