Blue On Blue...

 

It was a glorious morning to be out walking.  Millie and I took the long way around and enjoyed ourselves immensely.  " My cup runneth over," for sure.  If there had been no chores to do, I think we would have stayed all of the day. 

Early on, this morning, I left my jacket hanging on a Cedar peg, which is a handy thing to have on days that are a bit warmer than expected.  It was the second day this week that I had done this.  On the previous day, it was my new Christmas jacket that that gotten left behind.  That made me a bit apprehensive, but by the time we walked back to retrieve it, all was good.  (It's the perfect jacket, not too heavy, but heavy enough, and is shower proof.  It came with a deep hood, and broad sleeves which are large enough to pull over other layers, if needed.  It has been a good investment.)   

When I was helping clean up in the shop awhile back, I found an old Ladino Clover sack that caught my fancy.  I had already been working on a new jacket pattern, so it entered my head that I might add, just for fun, a piece of this old sack to a new trail jacket.  I wouldn't doubt, however, that it might end up being worn all over town when it is finished.  I will have more about this later on.   

Millie doesn't have the luxury of  being able to remove her coat, but she doesn't hesitate to jump into the pond to cool off, which she did this morning.  I love the big waves she makes.  

"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with nature herself...  I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things I did. ... "  ~Thoreau

On Walden Pond...

I never got around....

 

"Hidden Places"

Picture of the year 2025

I never got around to posting our picture of the year for 2025,  so here it is... only a few weeks late!  (It seems there are a lot of things that I never get around to these days! :(  It's really no surprise that this big gawky bird came in number one again, given how I have chased him many a crooked mile just to get a single picture.  He has had this honor before, you may remember, when "Were you too cold to fly?" took 1st Place.  

Were you too cold to fly?  (A favorite of mine.)

He has even shown up a few times on journal pages, sketched and water colored.

As of yesterday, Millie and I have walked our hilltop trails 1400 times without missing.  It didn't look possible when the trails lay buried in layers of snow, sleet and ice that we would be able to reach that number, but, thanks to a higher power, some man-made trails and  lots of tall sturdy trees to hang onto, we did!!! 

I was so busy hanging onto to everything within my reach,, that I didn't get many pictures of this storm, but here are just a few...