Window Thinking
They keep your feet dry, and that is what boots are for. – Mrs. Quimby Only grown-ups would say boots were for keeping feet dry. Anyone in kindergarten knew that a girl should wear shiny red or white boots on the first rainy day, not to keep her feet dry, but to show off. That’s …
Your chickens are just so good at being chickens! says my friend when I send her yet another picture of the girls. And it’s true!! That is exactly what they are good at!! I never imagined my love for these chickens. I had no interest in owning barnyard fowl. I have vague sensory memories from …
I took my sadness to the dahlia fields and let it walk in beauty.
Year after year I come to this place where Memory waits to greet me.
A home is not simply a building; it is the shelter around the intimacy of a life. –John O’Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace This house came available just when we needed it nearly 5 years ago. We pass it on now with deep gratitude for the shelter it provided our family.
Tomorrow is Ryan’s birthday which has become a marking point during our Alaska years – will we get our Anchorage winter snow pack started by his birthday? This year, it seems we have. (and right on schedule) Most afternoons lately I have been hanging out with our chickens – ever since a hawk swooped down …
A mellow sun hangs low this afternoon and autumn is fading out. (I took this photo on the 18th, but I got distracted while looking for 17 beats. Thus, the delay in posting.)
The greenhouse is cleaned out and the yard is pretty much put to bed. Our garbage service recently sent a note to say they’ll stop picking up the yard debris can at the end of the month and won’t start up again till May. That is six months from now. The sun rises at 8:45 …
This morning I was making coffee in the kitchen when I heard Ethan flipping light switches in the next room. A little bit later he came to the kitchen and grumbled, “These lights are weird. I can never figure out which switch turns on which light.” My thoughts EXACTLY. Recently I’ve noticed my irritation when …