It may be a new year, but some old habits continue....

 post #523

        Yikes, it's normal that it's currently hard to tell the days apart, but Thursday holidays really throw me off even more. I even have known what I wanted to try doing today. It's just that I haven't done it yet. 

        I hope everyone stayed healthy and as happy as possibile during Christmas and New Year's Day.  I happened to have gotten snowed in for Christmas Day!  Can't blame that on the virus. However, we can blame every thing else on it.  Well, we unfortunately can't attribute it for the President's inability to acknowledge that he lost the election fair and square.  It sure is sad to see someone shooting himself in the foot day after day. Our thanks again to all the people across the country who worked so hard to make this election one of the steadiest and well done ones ever accomplished, and during a pandemic on top of every thing else!

        Well, I have a few photos to share, but I also want to try a video! A Walk in the Snowy Woods along the Creek.  My daughter, Rebecca, did the photography for it, Christmas day. I will leave the video here to try to get itself together by morning, when I can try it again.

         Here are some other photos in case the video bombs.  This first photo shows what a friend was sent in the mail..  on New Year's Eve.  I love it.

Another Rebecca photo -- We NEVER have taken a photo from this end of their pond, so it's exciting to see this.

the fried egg look on my semi frozen pond, from my second floor deck, on Christmas day

  May the week to come not be a disaster in any way.  May people come to their senses. And congratulations to Biden and Harris for their definitive win, ahead by almost 8 million votes.

Distraction works wonders.

 post #515

        Tuesday looms over my day today, a Sunday -- unless I can get involved in a project. Or if a Norwegian friend living in Canada calls because she is following our politics very closely and is disbelieving and terrified. And a poet friend gets closer to having her book published.. And then a former schoolmate, now living in New Mexico, wants a report on Senator Mitch McConnell's latest dastardly deeds. And I checked in with a neighbor, again by phone, to learn about how things are going on our ridge, and my daughter checked in as well with a Halloween update. And, this morning, I took part in the remote Quaker Meeting I am part of, via Zoom, from Lexington. For periods of time today I actually forgot that the election still hangs over our heads, and that there could be bad behavior by those not willing to adhere to a constitutional transfer of power.  However, for a while, I even forgot that today is usually the day I do this weekly post!!  The wind blew the leaves back and forth across the driveway, for hours and hours, which is unusual. But I didn't blow away, and I am now doing the post. (And it is still today despite my semi-annual struggle to get a few clocks changed, by simply a single hour.  Arghhh) 

       One day last week, the fall colors were dramatic. I had to stop here and there along the ridge on my way back from town:

Then last Wednesday was fairly warm but with clouds -- a great day for taking on my promise to my daughter that I was good for a couple of hours in one of the garden patches they have:

a rock that to me looks like an owl's head....

Their dog looks enough like a deer that he has to wear his orange collar this time of year.

The Steps, seen from the garden -- they appear in many photos over the ten years of this blog.

 

version #1 of found treasures in the garden

 

version #2, again with another dogwood leaf. I call this photo "the seed within."

Humor for the locked-down deprived -- thanks so much, Forrest, for sharing these titles. I thought them delightfully clever. I'm thankful for other humor found on line, since there's not all that much that's funny these days.  We have a lot of work ahead of us to bring sanity back to our nation.  Why would we want to reelect someone who can envision not transferring power peacefully!!! That's an attitude that harms us all. It's super shocking, actually. And scary.

     My friend George Ella Lyon wrote a 1989 children's book called Together, one of my favorites out of the 40+ books she has done.  It ends with words that also work for us this week:

          Let's put our heads together and dream the same dream.

 Note: George Ella has a new book out, VOICES OF JUSTICE, poems for young people (and older folks) about those among us who have worked for justice.  It's illustrated by Jennifer M. Potter.  Congratulations!!!