resurrection fern

ice melts

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”

Ever since childhood icicles have been one of my favorite things about winter. Icicles and packing snow. So far this winter we have only had one day with snow suitable for snow person making. Here are a few more beautiful ice pictures I saved from the Ottawa trip at Christmas. The images of maple keys encased in ice was just incredible.

 

 

So no packing snow but plenty of the very special, light, bright and beautiful kind covering just about everything, including all the things on the porch.

Do you see the little snow troll:)     
 

       

smooth ice

"Smooth ice is paradise for those who dance with expertise"  Friedrich Nietzsche

A few pictures to share with you from Boxing Day, 2009. We all managed to get through the day without falling on our backsides or being hit by falling branches. That is a very good thing.

 

We were so happy that the cyclist remembered to cover their bike seat:)              
 

last visit to the art installation in a secret location this year

 

  
 

It was a beautiful cold morning with the perfect fresh snow as you can see on my car window. If you have no idea what I am referring to you can search under the category , art installation in a secret location, and get the low down. My art installation is completely covered in snow now.

 

No sign of the lace pieces and the covered stone but there were signs of some visitors very nearby.

 

I did manage to find some sporophytes looking quite perky.

And I gathered a few things to make use on some ephemeral ice pieces.

 

 

The gifts are finished and wrapped, the cakes and cookies baked and we are ordering sushi for dinner. Tomorrow we will be hitting the road to spend Christmas with my mom.

 
 
  
  
 

to help keep you cosy

 

an early morning walk on a very cold wintery morning

stones I covered why watching my mom sleep last weekend

the death of a patient of mine tonight who just celebrated 93 years on this earth

and a warm gift "to help keep me cosy" from "mr fern" 

just because ....

 

snow, snow, snow

Today was a snow day in every way except that we still had to find our way to work and to school as transportation was running ( but a little slower than usual).  It has been a long day but I still wanted to share a few pictures with you.

 

 

 

First snow storm, first snow man, first ice wreath of the season and the day ended with delicious left over soup from the party. It is sweet potatoe soup with chipotle decorated with a swizzle of sour cream and a sprinkle of lime zest and served with melted raclette on toasted whole wheat baguette. 

   
       
  
  

small gifts for each and everyone of you

 

Fern came out of hiding from the potted gardenia and whispered to me that he thought I should prepare my small gifts for my treasured blog friends. He must know what a procrastinator I can be. I want to wish you all much love, peace, joy and abundance of natural beauty this season and beyond. Consider this my early gift to you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. ~  C S Lewis

 
 
 

fertile whispers

 

There is a way to see inside

 By looking directly through

 to seed or marrow 

 

Within the bone vessel

 a world is made

 

 Red and milkweed

 it flows between us like 

wind

 

within the seed's case 

a secret is held

 

 

 Its fertile whisper

 shapes a song 

 

poem by Joan Halifax

This is the closest I have come to capturing magic in a jar.

Don't forget to check how the milkweed project is growing. You still have time to contribute since the deadline has been extended to January 15th, 2009. Remember my little contribution? 

walk + fresh snow = clear mind

Won't you join me?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A clear mind allows me to focus on work for the upcoming show in january. Here is a little glimpse of what I have been working on this week.

 

 
 

I am so blessed to have received a large box of stones from the my amazing friend Nanou. These stones are from the south of france and they are perfect raw materials for my art. My heartfelt thanks go out to all of you for your kind words and support. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

the cold

 
How exactly good it is
to know myself
in the solitude of winter,

  

my body containing its own
warmth, divided from all
by the cold; and to go

 

separate and sure
among the trees cleanly
divided, thinking of you

 

perfect too in your solitude,
your life withdrawn into
your own keeping

 

--to be clear, poised
in perfect self-suspension
toward you, as though frozen.

 

And having known fully the
goodness of that, it will be
good also to melt.

 

Poetry by Wendell Berry

Photographs by me

Magic by nature

Hope everyone is warm and cosy this weekend

but not too warm ( for all my warm climate friends)

 

beautiful symbiosis

a photographic tribute to lichen, rain and the last days of November

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The week is just about wrapped up , as is the month. I promise more colorful things in the next few posts. I also hope to get that list of last minute handmade gift tutorials up for you before the month is over.