a spirit of simplicity

riding my bike makes me happy and if i can ride it on the beach, or in the wood,  or with the ones I love that is when I am happiest of all hidden I remember when she was a toddler she thought that if she couldn't see me then i couldn't see her one pear... I'm such a word-nerd modern Boston city skyline over Broad Sound -Atlantic Ocean my man is my just dessert   I must have done something good to get to spend this time in our lives together scavenger hunt Sunday

icicle in the kitchen window the wind is howling and crashing over our rather tiny island the wind chill temperatures are down to -14 the kitchen smells like fresh coffee and the sunrise warms the old wooden floor beneath my feet i can't help but pause to admire the beauty of a smallish icicle hanging from the eaves ~ We are absolutely covered in snow here near Boston. traffic moves at a crawl because the roads are so snow filled that they are reduced to one lane and you can just forget about parking if you'd like to see a few more pictures of our snowy landscape there are more in the posts above this one ~  the other day I watched as the tractors scooped up snow and dumped it into trucks which then drove it over to the parking lot and dumped it then turned around to pick up another load it looked like a little Tonka truck village ~ When the temperatures get down below zero, as they have been,

We've had just a little bit of snow that's a bus stop sign and it's snowing again little things thursday

Snowmageddon!  and in honor of the letter "F" for abc wednesday Feckin' snow........ We have had a bit of snow.... over 7 feet and the storms just keep coming today we have wind chills at almost 30 below 0! Broad Sound, which is the part of the Atlantic Ocean between our little island and Boston has frozen over as far as we can see.  Roofs all over the area have been caving in people have been losing their homes and businesses. Travel bans have been in affect off and on for the past 3 weeks. Travel is actually quite dangerous.  This is school vacation week for the children  but schools have been cancelled due to weather  one or two days a week for the past month.  I've never seen anything like it in all my life and I lived through the infamous  "blizzard of '78" I'm sure the "winter of 2015" will be talked about for generations. we took a ride about

humanity  For me, it is almost impossible to think of humanity without thinking of  John Lennon because he is who I began to learn the concept from  When I saw a video of what i have been calling  the "je suis" people filling the streets of Paris and singing Lennon's song, Imagine i was at once filled with such awe We are only here for the love there is nothing else we must stop looking for it in other humans and find it in ourselves Often there are no words    only the essence of word combinations and the cosmic connection which makes us all one Aho Amen Awen   Noblesse Oblige Je suis Charlie One Love because Aaaaaahhhhhh... Because the world is round it turns me on Because the world is round...aaaaaahhhhhh Because the wind is high it blows my mind Because the wind is high...aaaaaaaahhhh Love is all, love is new Love is all, love is you Because the sky i

the fun snowshoeing the woodland path of an afternoon the random I ran out of coffee on Saturday morning  so after my class I took a drive to the market in the square where I bought a type of coffee beans called "resolution" they will not be carrying this flavor again till next year so I am enjoying the last of it On another random note,  we are having a second winter blizzard this morning the good (sooc) This is my driveway Just before the blizzard Juno ended .... It's a good thing it was plowed And we didn't have to shovel it! the good, the random, the fun macro monday 2 I heart macro nature notes sooc

number practicing arithmetic  we found this Keepsake while walking the wood one day I made this my beautiful daughters Saturday morning (sunlit Sunday) our beautiful world has posted signs of spring as the prompt for this imbolc day umm..... and we are expecting another 10 to 14 inches of snow tonight and tomorrow... but we are half way to spring.... scavenger hunt sunday Our beautiful world sunlit sunday