This way to the beach!
Hirtle’s Beach in Lunenburg County, NS to be exact.
WPC – lines
sunshine
Rise & Set
It takes love to hold on when you want to let go.
It takes love to let go when you want to hold on.
– Kate McGahan
We are moving.
Packing up this home of ours, downsizing , editing out stuff, distributing, donating, and cherishing.
We are letting go.
In preparation, I’ve read the life-changing books of tidying up and death cleaning. I’m following the rituals laid out therein. And, as much as I want this ( to rid my life of the unnecessary accumulation of material stuff), I’m here to tell you – it’s a gruelling process.
But we are getting there, certainly over half way now. Just a few more weeks before we are outta here, and there’s nothing like a deadline!!
We will be saying good bye to this beloved view, which has gifted us countless beautiful sunrises – each one uniquely breathtaking. There have been many mornings when all four of us have gathered at the window together to witness the start of another day. I bet I’ve taken a thousand photos of this view. Shared a few here, in fact.
But life is all about change.
The time has come for us to free up some time. For a new start. Our “empty-nester” house.
So! (Against my better judgement and) to my husbands absolute delight, we are building a new house. At the moment, it’s just an idea on paper, but once complete the new house will afford us views of sunsets. Here….
It’s going to be good. Trading early morning coffee for cocktails at sunset, perhaps? Sunrises for sunsets.
WPC – rise/set
Merry Christmas!
Christmas is coming – The goose is getting fat – Please put a penny in the old man’s hat – If you don’t have a penny, a ha’penny will do – If you don’t have a ha’penny, then God bless you.
A bit of peace and bliss at the beach today. A calm before the storm. Literally. The (ungrateful) weatherman is forecasting a Christmas Day storm of snow turning to rain with high winds for tomorrow. I expect we’ll get mostly rain. However, it’s the winds that can get me down.
We won’t notice this time though. Just so glad that we are all home here together. Both boys are home. The turkey is brining. The tree is lit and decorated. We’ll be busy catching up, playing games and just general silliness. Revisiting some traditions and creating new memories.
May the magic of the season gladden your heart and fulfill your desires!
Merry Christmas!
Just Dropping In …
This lovely lady rested beside me for a moment or two.
Dragonflies carry with them a weight of myth and folklore.
In Feng Shui, dragonflies mean change, new beginnings and bring all kinds of nice things.
Some people think a visit from a dragonfly is a visit from someone from heaven.
Another take suggests that they represent self-awareness and living in the moment. This might come from the fact that dragonflies spend most of their lives as nymphs, living as adults for only usually a few months.
All of this adds to the beautiful mystic of the dragonfly. These elegant and versatile fliers are equally at home in the air, on land and on the water. And they eat mosquitoes!! Or, so I’m told. A positive characteristic in any visitor.
One thing I know for sure, when this particular dragonfly alighted beside me, the world stood still for a few breaths as I marvelled in this small gift.
WPC – temporary
Rounded
Pedestrian
This late summer squash blossom is attracting lots of attention from the honey bees. They seem to be queuing up. And, if you could see further in, you’d find three more bees in the throats of the flower. Amazing!!
WPC – pedestrian
Wordless Wednesday – Cheeky
He is watching me, watching him.
The View From Here – After a Winter Storm
Dust of Snow
The way of a crow – shook down on me
The dust of snow – from a hemlock tree
Has given my heart – a change of mood
And saved some part – of a day I had rued. – Robert Frost
In spite of the (dire) storm warnings, the lethal ice that lurking beneath that “snowy mantle”, the closures and cancellations and being held hostage by my impassable driveway, it really is very beautiful out there….. 
This photo was sensibly taken from the warm side of the glass. Somewhere under that snow drift is my cold-frame, and in that nicely insulated cold-frame kale, carrots and lettuce are growing…..
Nope!! We’re not coming out today! Call again another day….
I think I’ll stay in too, for a little while anyway…
It’s not so bad.
Wordless Wednesday – Dormant
Vineyard – January 2015
Shadowed II
With the sun so low in the sky, there are so many lovely shadows this time of year. Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadowed
Rose Bay Letters 