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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This and that, from Friday...

More faerie lights!!!!!  :-))))))

Actually saw geese going over, Fri. morning.  But, typically, I didn't get good pics. 

Dairy, in a glass bottle!  Which you return to the store, for your refund.  Isn't that super?!?!?   Actually, this is "1/2 and 1/2", which I got in the Healthy Living Store.  

Yes, I'm *unnecessarily* happy, over it coming in a glass bottle.  -grin-   But then, I'm old enough to remember when milk was delivered to our front porch, in glass bottles.  And in the winter, you had to be sure to bring it in, before it froze.

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 Or the cream on top, would rise right up out of the bottle, "carrying" the little paper cap up, with it.  -grin-

Before the tree can go up, on the little table, the toy train set has to be installed, around it.  And it's never easy to do!!!!  Poor husband was working on that, on Friday.   -chuckle-  And anything around here, is "fair game," to be a "Photo Op"!!! 

 

I've been wanting a candle, without flame.  Finally got one.  Guess I'm not quite as excited about it, as I was, before getting it.   Isn't that often the way with things.....?  

Also got the little fake mercury glass candle holders.  Looking into them, is pretty...  So I don't want to put sea salt and candles, into them!  Then I couldn't look down into their pretty "insides."

 

And here, I played with the ap which comes on my computer...  And made the picture sort of fuzzy.  Just for fun........  I love photos of faerie-lights-which-look-fuzzy...  They make it easier to think of little dots of light, being faeries....

In the summer, we have fireflies.  (To think of, as faeries)  In winter, we have faerie lights.  But if fireflies are summer faeries, Dec. lights must be winter faeries.  :-)

 

"...the French plums blushed in modest tartness..."

Susan Branch knows "WHIMSEY."  :-)  I took photos of pages, from my copy of her "Christmas From The Heart Of The Home."  Susan knows whimsey.  !!!!!!! 

And of course, everyone knows she is a very, very, very talented artist.  Not only with her art-itself, but with personally writing, all the copy in her books.

-happy sigh-

My husband is making me Gluten Free Stuffin'...

...to cook in the chicken, we got at the Healthy Living Store. 

He always stuffs our family dinner holiday turkeys, with his special stuffin'.  But since it uses regular bread crumbs, I can't eat it.  -moan-  Soooo, he is making me G/F Stuffin'!!!!!!!!!

And I will be making him, a Mincemeat Pie with my home made crust.  :-)))  Which he loves.

-chuckle-  Did you notice my "painted nails"???  ,-)  Rarely do I put nail polish on.  Once in a while, I get the urge.  Since I've never had a manicure in my life, when I do it, I am the one who has to do it.  And I am the one who has to remove it, when it gets chipped and messy.  -moan-

But last evening, I got out all my from-over-the-years bottles of nail polish.  Selected one named "Merlot" and added a thick coat of "SpArKleS" on top.  Obviously, my pic is all-messed-up, from cropping.  But...  That's what I did.  -grin-

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Frost ... Last harvest ... Yarn ... Etc.

Down into the 20's last night.  (Sun. night to Mon. morning)  The 'Frost Faeries' did the little Bird Bath Fountain.

But I think 'Jack Frost' himself, painted my neighbor's garage roof.   That looks like it was done, in too broad brush strokes, for wee little Faeries.  :-)))

Chippy must have his nest ready and waiting for him.

A typical sight, from all the rainy weather, we were having, last week.  Happily, it seems to have gone away.  This morning..  (Mon. morning)   the barometer can't hardly go any higher!!!

My mother sewed beautifully.  I sewed a little.  Never knitted though.  ..........  My mother-in-law was a fantastic knitter.  She taught our daughter to knit, when she was 7 years old.  And she never forgot. ..........  She knits, knits, knits...  And spins her own yarn.  And even does lace.    

   I finally asked her  (my daughter)  to teach me...  She was kind of amazed!  Brought me over  (she lives just 2 doors over...) some yarn and needles, and taught me.  I poked away at it.  Yesterday we went to a local yarn shop and I picked out a pretty color yarn and bigger needles.  :-)))))

This picture was taken of my "goodies," on my favorite chair.  See the colors?  You can see my color preference.  :-))))

Another example of our now gone, rainnnnnny weather.

Sat., son next door, was cleaning out their gardens...  The 2 smallest "Grands" brought over some fresh-picked-carrots.  :-)

Our 15 year old Granddaughter, will not eat candy.  She is concerned about what she puts into her body.  She loves volleyball, goes to the gym with her aunt, and I think that is soooo dedicated and wonderful.

And she is still a "girly-girl", with a cute boyfriend!!!  :-) 

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The 'Frost Faeries' passed by...

This morning (Tues.) the barometer is all the way up in Fair.  It's been rising and rising, and clear sky last night....

 

So yesterday, I took some photos of the flowers, which were still blooming........  

And this morning, this is what greeted me...

Poor fallen Cosmos...

And a fuzzy pic of frost...  Yes, the Frost Faeries were about last night.

But in photos, we still have memories of wee little Moss Roses, hanging-on until the last...

But inside, the little "Ghost House" is happy still.

"The Ghost House" is the favorite, of our 3 year old next-door Grandson.  It's mine tooooo, and has been, for years and years.  He also loves the "Candy Corn" lights.  :-)  

Since he's too heavy for me to lift up, to see the mantle up-close, I took down each "Happy Witch" at a time, and showed them to him.  No ugly, icky, mad, not cute Witches in 'Nana's' decorations.  Only cute ones!!!

 

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