Dawn sunlight gives a chunk of snow a pale, rosy glow.

Dawn sunlight gives a chunk of snow a pale, rosy glow.

On a snowy day senior Stella is still ready to take a walk. Here, she relaxes in front of the furnace.

The lowering sky brings a promise of snow, beginning tonight and lasting through Sunday. Forecasts suggest up to 20cm. That’s fine, we will be snug, cooking and baking, foraying out to shovel as we need, keeping the bird feeders full, walking the pups.

On a mostly cloudy afternoon, the sun makes a statement. ‘I am here’.

The sky threatened to spew snow during most of today day, carrying out its threat only a few times.
There will be many more opportunities during the next few months.

Winter is coming, we can’t wish it away, may want it to never come but come it will. I’m looking forward to the season of rest, renewal, pondering the lessons of 2016 and how to apply those lessons to the next seasons of gtowth.
See you Thursday.


I think Fitzi has settled in.

A field of winter wheat, bordered by cedars.

When I arrived home this attractive little rabbit was crouched between the car and the gate. It waited, watched while I got out and edged circuituously by, dashing off only when I was about six feet away.
