Do you sometimes, get a "feeling"...?

(First icicle, the other morning...)

But it's a lazy snow, that's falling this morning (Wed.).  The kind of snow, that you hardly notice, against the grayness and snowy-cover of the early day.  Then, it's pace seems to pick up.  No longer do the flakes seem to fall in slow motion.  Now, they have work to do!  Laying another blanket on the cold earth.
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This package!  It took me 15 minutes to wrap.  Too long, of course.  Why this long?  Because I was trying to wrap it so skilfully, to save paper.  Hahhhhh....
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You know how that goes!
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A waste of time.  More time spent, actually.  More paper used, also...  -moan-  ,-))))
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 Silly me...
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"There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."
- Erma Bombeck

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Did you ever get "a feeling"?  That you should look into something, perhaps?  The other night, I got the "feeling" that I should visit a blog, which I have followed, off and on, for years and years.  I visited and found that there were bits-and-pieces of 'different.'  So glad I listened to, and followed that "feeling."

That blog is......   :-)

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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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Snow?~~~Santa, are you listening?~~~

A perfect bit of snow, is on the pumpkin.  :-)

 

"Mrs. Jeffries And The Merry Gentlemen"

by Emily Brightwell

Isn't that a cute cover?  And this is another cute entry in the "Mrs. Jeffries Mysteries" series...  A very Seasonal "cozy" mystery. 

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Will we be in for a real winter snow storm, in "my neck of the woods", this coming weekend...?   -sigh-  Got to make sure we are stocked up, before it blows in. ~~~~~~~~~    Btw, I'm in the NE, so we "know" snow.  But the older I get, the less I seem to be able to "handle" the cold.  So I don't want to have to go out, in it.  :-)

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"Christmas won't be Christmas 

without any presents."

~Louisa May Alcott 'Little Women'

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With all my reading of British "cozies," I'm using my tea kettle to heat water for my decaf.  Instead of heating it, in a measuring cup, in the microwave.  But all we have is a very plain little tea kettle. 

I hope I will have a cute little red and white polka dot tea kettle, after Christmas.  :-))))

I hope.

I hope.

I hope.

:-)))

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...