Window Thinking
I just ran across this picture I snapped right before I flew to Oregon and then forgot to post. Back when the view out my window was bare and brown with little dirty piles of snow littered around, I worked this puzzle and it was good!
I’ve been on a Lisa Genova trail since I re-read Still Alice a couple months ago. I appreciate Genova’s ability to lean into her training and experience as as a neuroscientist and center a neurological condition within a compelling, insightful story. This was yet another easy to read, engaging story that I have come to …
One of my boys noticed when I tucked a few puzzles into my luggage while packing for my recent weekend trip to Portland and he asked if I was going to work on a puzzle with Pa (my dad) while I was there. “Not enough time,” I said, but I was planning on a puzzle …
I bought a couple new puzzles this month. My selection of this, the first, was no doubt inspired by the fact that I was reading Rebecca Stead’s Liar & Spy. I wasn’t sure how the pointillism would go in the puzzling, but it turned out to be a remarkably pleasant project.
Fun picture. But not my favorite puzzle to put together. Maybe all those squiggly, colorful faces are a little too chaotic for my jigsaw puzzle purposes and preferences? I’ve finished it several times over the past few years. Passing it on now.
Having worked through most of my puzzle collection this past year, I purchased a new one this month. This Cavallini & Co Bees and Honey puzzle was fun to put together and reminded me of a book I stopped to read while shelving picture books in the library a few years ago, so I checked it …
I’ve done this one a few times now. I always enjoy it. David says it’s one of his favorites – he means favorite to look at, not favorite to put together. He doesn’t really get involved in my puzzling because there are rules – if you don’t help all along the way, you can’t show …
When I type “Birds” into the search bar of my photos app, this puzzle returns in the results. It first appears in March 2017 when I was on the healing side of ankle surgery. Here I am now posting it on the “sorta healing” side of hand surgery and it, being one of my favorites, …
A friend recently asked me what makes a puzzle “good” to me. I’m still working out my answer, but one thing I know: this is a good puzzle. I’ve done it a bunch of times and it remains one of my favorites.
My dad got this puzzle for Christmas. He worked it twice already and then sent it on to me. I enjoyed putting it together over these last couple days and this week I’ll send it on to my sister in Nashville. I googled the artist Jane Mount when I finished the puzzle and discovered that …
I bought this puzzle for the colors, the northern landscape, the art. I googled and found this statement on the artist: Dawn’s main theme is winter; her snowy bright images capture the essence of the North in the dark time, cold, but full of colour. Her use of swirling colours representing the northern lights is …
I am usually not a fan of of compilation-picture puzzles. They feel messy to me and my real life is so messy that I’m not that interested in a puzzle like that. I work on puzzles to chill, not to wallow in mess. But I pulled this puzzle out of the little free library down …
When I worked on the Saying Grace puzzle back in December 2019, I discovered a log of puzzle completion written inside the box top: Based on the written log, this Saying Grace puzzle has been in the family awhile! I actually think it came to us from my Grandma and Grandpa Yoder’s game cupboard, though …
I finished my 4th puzzle of the year! which says something about my year thus far, I suppose. As I worked on puzzling this scene together, I found myself thinking about what it means to say grace. And then went looking for some info on this particular piece of art. I learned that this served …
An old time country store is not my usual puzzle picture choice, and I tend to prefer 1000 pieces, but I am down to the end pickings on my puzzle shelf. I’d never done this one before and it was pleasant to assemble. Also, it reminded me of our fun family stop through Franklin a …
I got this puzzle for my birthday in November, but had a couple seasonal puzzles to complete first. Finally! January 1 and I got to the chicken puzzle. I work my puzzles on a board that I can push under the couch when I need it out of the way. I’d just opened this puzzle …
I finished my first puzzle of the year – though most of it was done “last year”. I got this puzzle for Christmas and enjoyed putting it together. It was fun to run across an article about the apartments for custodians above the New York City libraries while I was working on this puzzle. To …