Yes, we got snow!!!

Yet another Christmas themed "cozy" mystery!   Great Series!  But it should be read, from the beginning.  Each book has a different mystery, but the cast of characters continue.  And you get to love them.  :-)  Here is a link, to a marvelous place, which gives the List of these books, in order.

Yes, we got snow!

Sat. the bird bath fountain looked like this.

This is how it looks, Sunday morning...

"It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it."

~John Burroughs

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The barometer did a nose-dive!

Just sticking his pole in the snow, he thinks it's about 12 inches.

The patio...  This morning...

The pumpkin on the patio, on Saturday...

Same spot, on Sunday morning...

See the wee bump, in the middle of this pic?  Left is bird bath fountain and on the right, is the Adirondack chair.

The bump in the middle, is the pumpkin.  :-)

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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?
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/snow.html#l5BTgWFR3TLmhudl.99

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.

:-)))

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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A very varied post... ,-)

Thursday dawned rainy here.  But this was the beautiful southern  view of the sky, the other early-evening.

I need to look up the name of that beautiful Evening Star...  Which appears below, and to the left of the waxing Moon....  ~~~  There is a "reflection" of the Moon, a little bit above it...  Because I had to take these pictures, through a Den window.  :-)

-Various shadows-

~Rug in Den~

To carry on my Books-Library-Book-StoreTheme of the other day...  :-)  How is this for a quirky doorway, in a quaint Book Store????  Wish I knew where it is located.  I found it in this blog post, but click-able source link below it, didn't work.  -pout-

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And since I'm on a kinda' silly kick here, in this post, I leave you with an early Christmas decorating suggestion!!!  I've seen a lot of different Christmas trees, but this one is really different.  -gigggggles-

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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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