The carefully constructed layers we took 20 minutes to compile took mere seconds to remove. We were beginning to sweat underneath the heavy clothing from the tiring walk we had just completed. It ended in the nick of time, too, because as soon as we got inside the toasty house the wind picked up and […]

     With yet another forecast calling for copious amounts of snow, Boone weather is steadily doing its best to test our ability to endure a true winter. It has caught many of the blue ridge mountain residents completely off guard, too, because it doesn’t typically start this early. People are scrambling to get preparations […]

  Yesterday, here in Boone NC, we had our first substantial snow of the winter season. When I say substantial, I mean a few inches, but it did snow all day long and throughout the evening. I managed to tear myself away from my movie marathon to take a walk along the Greenway Trail near […]

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. ~Arthur Schopenhauer~ On one hand:My car ran perfect to and from our weekend destination.I was perfectly healthy, not a cold or infection in sight.We were given some lovely spring weather. On the […]

perspective can shiftas the layers are revealedyou come full circle The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.~Ivy Baker Priest~ It’s been a while since I have done a haiku.The transition between winter and spring always finds me in a deeply contemplative mood.I hate […]

First Snow by Mary Louise Allen Snow makes whiteness where it falls The bushes look like popcorn balls And places where I always play Look like somewhere else todayBeautiful feathery flakes of snow Over the woodland and field they go Making a blanket so warm and deep Over the flowers that lie asleep I have […]

Hope: Is in carrying the weight of it all Endure the DarknessThe load will lessen with timeResilient Spirit If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.~Neil Simon~ Literally and figuratively these words speak so much truth to me this week.To say the least it has been a rather […]

unforeseen delightthe anticipation buildswayward reverie I didn’t want to choose just any word for the Shutter Sisters’ One Word Project.I couldn’t even determine if I would participate due to the fact that I couldn’t commit to a word.I wanted to all-of-a-sudden have an ah-ha! moment that wouldsignal a correlation between my heart, mind, and eye.Like […]

Posted in Wordful Wednesday My mind and emotions are in the process of recharging.Keeping a low profile is the best I can do right now. Enthusiasm and energy have temporarily fallen to the wayside,and as a result I’m finding motivation harder to come by.Daydreams, however, those are plentiful! “For oft, when on my couch I […]

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~Anne Bradstreet Looking for some sun in my life………..I plundered through my photostream on Flickr to brighten up the blog. This photo was taken at the beginning of January […]