Knitting Iris

merry christmas!

solstice hoopla

Happy Solstice all!

Here, it was bright and beautiful, inside and out, albeit chilly, both day and night. 

We deeply soaked in the warmth of the sunshine, the moonlight, the firelight, the fellowship, the food, and the drink!

The hoopla and festivities continue on through the weekend.

flurry

Along with the usual stuff of life, December, so far, has been a flurry of holiday cleaning and preparations,

gift making,

and parties (birthdays, sledding, skating, tamale-making, solstice...)

There has been snow,

rain (we were absolutely soaked after sledding in a downpour!),

fog,

ice, and even a little sunshine here,

and there.

It's been just the best mix of quiet, family time mixed with social time with friends!

Hope you're equaly enjoying this month.

summer retrograde

 

 

Clearly this is out of season but,

while laid up with the last vestiges of a 24 hour style flu,

I spent a good part of the couch-time going through pictures and came across these.

This would have been the sole weekend last summer when we could have gone camping all together as a family, only the weather forecast didn't look too promising, and so we opted instead for a day trip to a new-to-us lake nearby. 

This day was oh so very nice.

When clouds threatened, soon after we arrived, to drive us out of there we gave ourselves a single chance to get a fire going using a napkin I found in my bag as starter.  It took, keeping us warm enough to wait out the rain, to stay a little longer, despite the chill in the air.

I still can scarcely believe I didn't camp out overnight, not even once, this past summer,

but we did have this one day.