We're all the same inside

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

When it's minus 15 out but the afternoon sun is shining on the dining room table, what's better then leafing through the Christmas books to start planning for summer adventure.
We're still working on the list.

Apparently I am not the only one

When I pulled over on a relatively quiet country road to take some photos of the sunset yesterday I noticed 2 other cars were doing exactly the same thing.
Somehow the camera (wonderful as it is) cannot truly capture the quality of light and colours that are in these sunsets. But they are so magnificent I just have to share.

Sledding - other people's children

New Year, Same Old Obsession

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
~ Claude Monet

We wish you a Merry Christmas

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
~Norman Vincent Peale






Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
~Mary Ellen Chase

It's out here somewhere

We always go to a cut your own tree farm for our Christmas tree. Usually we go on the first weekend in December - but for various reasons that didn't work for us this year. So we set off on Sunday for a tree hunt.
Our usual places hasn't planted new trees for years, and the pickins are getting slim. So we thought we would try a new place - which is lovely and just down the road.

It's also pretty new and the trees are pretty....short.

We thought we would try to get one at the old place. Except that by then it was past 4:00 and it was cold and a few of our elves were feeling peevish instead of elvish.

So we can home treeless......

Can we just push Christmas back a month or so?