It's been cold the past few days and there have been some snow flurries but it wasn't until this morning that there was enough snow to cover the trees and ground. These photographs were taken behind my home shortly after dawn.
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February
Favorite Quotation
- This morning the pastures have a brown and faded look, like an apron that has had too many careless washings. Rural Free: A Farmwife's Almanac of Country Living by Rachel Peden
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Other Pieces of My Life
Twelve Things I've Learned
- As I get older I am becoming fonder of tenderness
- Beauty fades but substance doesn't
- Don't compromise yourself, it's all you've got. (Janis Joplin)
- Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow. (James Dean)
- Hope begins in the dark. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. It is important to fight for your joy
- I sing in church even though my singing is wretched; God doesn't care how well I sing
- I've never lost anything by giving things away
- Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff and hope you grow wings on the way down (Ray Bradbury)
- The best things come when you least expect them
- The two best prayers I know are: help me, help me, help me and thank you, thank you, thank you (Anne Lamott)
- There are cracks in everything; that's how the light comes in (Leonard Cohen)
- When you get the choice to sit it out or dance--I hope you dance! (Lee Ann Womack)
About Me
- Monique
- I am a wife, the mother of four grown sons, and nana to five grandchildren. I work part-time as a librarian/ archivist at a university library. I enjoy knitting socks, hats, mittens and other items for charity, reading, hand quilting, growing old-fashioned flowers, and bird watching.