Spring

The apricot blossoms are starting to drop, peach trees and magnolias are blooming.  The leaves of the chokecherries have popped out.  Butterflies flutter by.  Spring is amazing, especially at how fast it appears.  Unfortunately a spring snow is expected on Sunday.

Beauty of a Spring Day

The crisp white snow on Mount Ogden and Ben Lomond glistened in relief against the backdop of a blue sky filled with fluffy cumulus clouds.  Blossoms on the apricot trees and forsythia bushes burst open.  Daffodils and violets are in bloom.  A beautiful Spring Day.

Correspondence

Yesterday, I received a letter from Honeysuckle lane, Honolulu, Hawaii.  What a surprise, and lovely gift from my niece.  The gift of handwritten correspondence, so much more than a call or a text message.

My mother received a similar gift.  We enjoyed sharing our letters with each other.

Thank you ~ MandiAnne.

Still snowing!

Just finished Deborah Harkness' Discovery of Witches.  I am looking forward to Shadow of Night.

It is snowing!

Early snowdrops

I picked early snowdrops today.  The day was sunny, but cold as was our walk.   I brought the small bouquet of snowdrops home to enjoy.  They are blooming in a small cream pitcher on the windowsill above my kitchen sink.  A small touch of spring!

Clyde comes to live at my house

Clyde with his deliciously large cookie, an Etsy purchase from Lorraine Young Pottery, came to live with Mollie and I.

Isn't he handsome!

Bookstore

I visited the bookstore today, and of course added more books to my bookshelf, waiting to be read.

Relaxing

Ymm! A hot bath!  The bathroom is filled with lavender scented steam.

Happy Valentines Day!

Illuminated Spring D

Still drawing letters.

Small Conversations

I have often thought that the handwritten letter as my favorite form of  correspondence.  In this modern age of e-mails, telephone conversations and text messages, I still write letters.  Although, I also use all these other forms of communication.  

Members of my family and friends have travelled away from my Ogden Canyon home.  I find ways of communicating with them, checking in with them.  I enjoy any form of communication I receive, wonderful gifts of their time.

Interestingly, I find I miss those small conversations that are shared while doing the dishes, driving in the car or a small job at work.  The sharing of stories, remembering of past experiences, a shared joke.  The small conversations that don't transfer well into the written word.

Aaah!

The weekend, time to relax and reboot!

Too

Too many projects, thoughts and ideas spinning around in my head.  Mostly work related.  I am putting together the Spring and Summer Class Schedule, preparing a press release for the March exhibit, taking reservations, cataloging art and preparing for the center's annual fundraising art auction.  -Overload-  psst!

Sunset/Moonrise

A lovely sunny winter Saturday, ends.

Significant Storm

Jeweled droplets

Jeweled gem drops of water sparkle in Mollie's fur and on my bedspread, melting snowflakes from our evening walk.

Jealous

I am slightly jealous.  The blogs I have been visiting today have been showing pictures of early spring flowers.  This while the world outside my window is turning white.  We have had rain for days, which now has changed to snow.  The trees are coated in snow.  The top line of the fence is edged in white.  Even the sky is white.  Winter has arrived and looks like it plans to stay.  It will be a while until I see spring flowers anywhere other than on others' blogs.

It's raining, it's snowing, the weather changing.

Words

Do you ever think that we have a limited number of words that we are able to use?  Not a limited vocabulary, but a limited number say one billion.  Most recently, I have been using my written words to create request for grant money a new part of my expanded job as assistant director at the Eccles Community Art Center.  In doing this job - writing grant requests; I didn't seem to have the words or thoughts to share with friends in letters or on this blog.