Even in these tightening lanes, the seasons cycle around and around
I have been terrifically wiped out by this set of holidays. The major accomplishment of Boxing Day was taking a walk and a couple of pictures, which I did shortly before sunset. I was very taken with the intertwining of the ember-bright berries and the fruits with their frost-feathers which I imagine would have been even more striking against snow. Both were tangled through the chain-link of a yard.

I believe the feathery vine to be old man's beard, although I am making this identification almost strictly from the illustration in Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies of the Seasons (1988). I can't tell if the red fruits are winterberries or something else seasonally apropos and unwise to eat.

They look like the X-rays of snakes.
This afternoon is Boxing Day Observed, meaning the presence of my niece and my brother. I did not appreciate the prompt return of the contractors at an hour when I had already been unable to sleep all night.

I believe the feathery vine to be old man's beard, although I am making this identification almost strictly from the illustration in Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies of the Seasons (1988). I can't tell if the red fruits are winterberries or something else seasonally apropos and unwise to eat.

They look like the X-rays of snakes.
This afternoon is Boxing Day Observed, meaning the presence of my niece and my brother. I did not appreciate the prompt return of the contractors at an hour when I had already been unable to sleep all night.
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Thank you! (Seriously!)
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*hugs*
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Thank you!
I have read before, but always forget that traveller's joy and old man's beard are different stages of the same plant because according to Barker they are different fairies. (The Traveller's Joy Fairy was one of my favorites as a child.)
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Those vegetable children look familiar to me. I wonder if they were excerpted in my grandmother's Books of Knowledge.
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I have never read any of her books, but the motorbike is appealing.
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I really hope you'll be able to get some rest and recover a bit, in spite of the contractors.
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I am looking forward to discovering what it looks like in the spring!
I really hope you'll be able to get some rest and recover a bit, in spite of the contractors.
Thank you. It's just a lot of hammering.
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Thank you.
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I'd sure give you as much of this snow as you wanted, I tell you what.
P.
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How is your household faring vs. snow?
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We didn't have an inordinate amount of snow for Minnesota, though it was a bit enthusiastic for December. But it divided itself up into too many episodes that each required immediate attention.
That said, I figure that if I'm not in Buffalo I'm plenty lucky.
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We have friends in Buffalo; they are under seven feet of snow, but otherwise safe. I am glad you are able to deal with and hope you do not have to deal immediately with any more enthusiastic episodes of your own.
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We are looking at an ambiguous storm building, where the track is uncertain so that the exact form the abundant precipitation will take is also uncertain. It is hard to even know what to hope for. But at least it doesn't sound as if sub-zero temperatures will be involved. The worse combination is wet snow or rain followed, before one can shovel anything, by an immense drop in temperature. I call it rude.
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