Friday, January 3, 2014

a clean and tidy way

January has blown in, literally with vigorous winds, colder temps and bleak beauty all around.

The Christmas decorations have been taken down and stored way back in the attic, until next year.

Yes, it is a clean and tidy way to begin a new year.


The lights will continue to glow over my kitchen windows during dark month of January, because dark comes early.

Little January
Will stay a month with me
And we will have such jolly times -
Just come along and see."
-  Winifred C. Marshall, January

a chickadee

 I have taken to afternoon walks in the fields along the side of the woodlands. Today I carried along a small pair of binoculars hoping to c...