The cottage in yesterday’s late afternoon sun. It was a beautiful day, sunny and warm. I was able to open the windows during the afternoon for some fresh air.
Today? Rain. And you’ll notice some handled tools near our door. Snow shovels. We’re going to get a fair amount of snow and sleet on Sunday and Monday.
May I just say YUCK? Not at all excited about it. Of course, I know our choice to live here comes with snow. But after…67 years minus the 8 years I lived in California…59 years of this stuff, I’m over it. I will do my best to have a positive attitude, however.
It will take some work.
Note how green our grass is! We’ve had so much rain this autumn that it’s quite long and very green.
I’m really enjoying The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry. I’m about 2/3 of the way through.
The winner of a copy of Body Leaping Backward:Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood is Noelle Sweeney. Congratulations! Noelle, I’ll email you, but if you see this first, please email me at the address on my sidebar and give me your mailing address. Thank you!
Happy Wednesday.
Wow! That is a blue sky! Happy Wednesday!
Thank you, Shanna. It’s not blue today!!
It is so beautiful around your house. My daughter lived in Ohio for 30 years and is now in California. She doesn’t miss the snow but wishes there weren’t so many wild fires.
HUGS
I wish there wasn’t, too. It’s awfully scary. There were wild fires when we lived there, but not nearly so many. Thanks, Kim!
MHC looks lovely in that sunshine! We have a high wind warning today… up to 50mph gusts. It exhausts me. Just rain for us, as the snow is quite a bit farther north. I think we do have a chance for an inch or 2 of that 4 letter word on Sunday. But we have had over 15 inches already since Oct, so I guess that won’t be as bad as what they are getting elsewhere.
Hope you and Don have a great day!!
We’re getting those winds tonight and tomorrow. I guess they’re traveling across the country. I hate high winds, so I imagine I will be tense! Thanks, Chris.
Your house looks so very beautiful in that light. I know what you mean about the snow. I’m there too. Stay cozy!
We will! You, too, Jeanie!
I won’t be online tomorrow so I want to be sure to wish you and Don a Happy Thanksgiving, Claudia! You caught the light so beautifully in the photo; you do have quite a lovely home, don’t you (think of that every time you get snow!). We had a pretty-good little rain in the night here in SoCalif and I woke to a spectacularly-beautiful world, all washed clean of grit and ash from the wildfire earlier this month; incredible cloudscape to the west toward the ocean and east/north/south to more mountains of blue and purple, swathed in snowy-white, billowy cotton puffs.
Two houses before this one, although just down the street (I can’t seem to get out of my childhood neighborhood!), we had a ginko tree which, exactly at this time of year, would be ablaze in lemony-yellow leaves, soon to leave a carpet of pale-yellow all over the ground (autumn comes late to SoCalif). I miss that tree; it always spelled “Thanksgiving Is Here” to me! Your lawn is indeed green; wow, not ours, and it got thatched for the season on Monday so it’s just an ugly dry patch (brown) although hopefully the rain did it some good.
Best wishes for your holiday tomorrow; stay warm and cozy!
Glad to hear you got some rain, Vicki! Ginko trees are lovely. Manhattan is seemingly full of them. I love the shape of the leaves.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Really?! Add ginkos to my list of 3000 reasons why I need to get to NYC in my nearest future. (I rarely ever see them in SoCalif; mine was an anomaly, but the former homeowner was a landscape architect, so there ya go!) I bet these ginko trees are so pretty in NYC’s numerous parks. I know nothing of NYC’s parks except from what I’ve read or seen in movies, TV and travel shows. I just think Central Park would be such a treat to see but I’m also intrigued with ones like Riverside Park. It makes sense that city dwellers anywhere need a break from all their ‘urbanization’ by having parks to stroll through and ‘get back to nature’ with some colorful flowers, bees buzzing and maybe butterflies, birds, squirrels, etc. when there’s otherwise so much stone, concrete and asphalt on noisy streets with honking horns, sirens and just general crowd noise. In a park, you can spread out! Lovely respites, just like what you and Don enjoyed in that little tuck-away private garden during the Margaritaville run, or the beautiful public gardens in Paris, like the Luxembourg. (Ever since you posted photos of that Medici fountain, I tend to think more of the Luxembourg now than the Tuileries!)
beautiful home. beautiful sky.
good luck with the weather … be safe! and best wishes to don with the audition (not that i think he needs it … i just want people to get what they want/need).
glad you’re liking that book. and congrats to noelle for winning the give-away.
happy thanksgiving to you and don, your families and friends and everyone else who meets here! i wish and pray all the best for you.
and among the endless things for which i am grateful, i am thankful for somehow finding your blog!
kathy in iowa
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, Kathy! Thank you for your kind words.
What a gorgeous picture. I see that your tree is bare. Our trees are almost bare. The grass is green as is ours. A while back the grass was mostly brown, but all the rain seems to have helped it. Wishing you and Don a Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy the day.
Marilyn
Your home is quite lovely, both inside and out! Thanks for sharing it with us!
Your home looks lovely in the sunlight. Our high winds are coming your way…it’s been a rather unsettling day to see the least. The wind just seemed to seep into every crack and crevice that our house had…made it quite chilly inside today.
I hope you have a wonderful time with your friends tomorrow. There’s nothing like good food, and good friends. Happy Thanksgiving to you and Don! ;)
Popping in to say “Happy Thanksgiving” — I’m so grateful for you and your readers who regularly make me smile. What a lovely community we have here. Now, back to my turkey.