More to come...

 

And if you like the jazz of A Charlie Brown Christmas...enjoy the next 30+ minutes below. Includes fireplace log video.

Dali's version of the Three Wise Men

Today's quote:

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

 -Christina Rossetti, poet (1830-1894)

Winters to remember

 

 

Old photos...

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Flat Creek, 2017 photo by Trung Lively

Flat Creek, Feb 4, 2014 photo by B. Rogers

Greenville SC - Main Street taken Jan 26, 1966 by Lewis Burress who worked at News Piedmont (large building under the sign perhaps)

Dec 9, 2018 around 8 am, photo by Black Mountain News.

Mt. Mitchell, January 2018, photographer unknown

Looking Glass Falls Jan. 2018. unknown photographer

Looking Glass Falls, January 2018, unknown photographer

Dec. 23, 2018 at Lake Tomahawk

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Repost from 2019

And though snow fell once (maybe twice with rain) in 2023, there was no accumulation here. We shall see what comes along in the next year...

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Today's quote:

Earth is home to a web of living things that are connected to each other through a kaleidoscope of relationships.

Just on the ridge

Out the window of the Vet's office, as Muffin and I waited to be seen one day, I noticed the trees across the road on the ridge.

Yes, many of us see this all winter long.  There are no leaves.  There is no snow.  Some days it's sunny and warm.  Some days it's sunny and cold.  And some days...you know the rest. 

Just keep looking for something beautiful out there!

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

Winter of "yore"

Montreat in the snow, 2011 winter - I was hoping to replace this with a more recent one, but this year has been pretty sparse on snow in Black Mountain and Montreat.  Up on higher peaks, it has fallen a few times though!

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.  Aesop

Dawn's early light

Sunrise from my front porch, winter 2012

Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles. 
 St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, Embrace the World

Sorry about not posting on Washington's birthday, I think that must have some cosmic reason, of which I can't possibly fathom.  But I'm back!

Seven Sisters

Montreat Rd. on a winter day, one of the Seven Sisters mountains in the distance

Craft school Penland

Penland Craft Center, opening again in the spring.

Crafts for sale here

The Allenstand Crafts Shop in the Folk Art Center, for which I had to obtain permission to take this photo.  Holiday season 2011.

The color of snow

January 2011 had lots of snow in my front yard. 
We have a little bit forecast tomorrow, but it's due to melt pretty quickly.

You all who live up in the real snow country, I know how tired of it you can get...but I just would like one or two days looking like this.

This is being sent to Friday Fences.

Wintertime walks

Snow along Flat Creek, Montreat, January, 2011

White Sunday, Hooker Falls

Hooker Falls, Jan 2011

Colors of winter

Sunset at Zen Center near Asheville, NC

Winter's pale reflections on clouds and snow.

This post is added to the meme, Weekend Reflections.  Come on over to see other photos from around the world!

Out in the woods

A retreat cabin and wishing well at a Zen Center near Asheville

This is my first entry to a meme called Friday's Fences.  Come on over to see other interesting pictures!

Asheville view

Looking east towards Asheville, with a bridge over the French Broad River in foreground

This is the funniest short cut, or maybe long cut would be more descriptive, of getting to Westgate Shopping Center, coming from the River Arts District.  Have you ever done this hairpin up and down excursion? 

Creekside view

High water on Flat Creek, Montreat, NC

compared to another shot at same place...several months ago

I'm entering this week's water scene in Weekend Reflections.

Hoarfrost visit

The strange low shroud of clouds on Dec 27, 2012, left a gorgeous picture (see below)

Rare hoarfrost has descended on the topmost trees around Asheville, NC.

Brightness in the season

You know this flower, all over the place for the holidays, giving a nice spark to the grey winter days.  Can you spell it without looking it up?  Poinsettia?

White Sunday

Winter at the cottage, 2010

Winter creek

Winter sometimes provides gorgeous walks for me, 2011