Searching for a Balance

  a woodland themed towel from Debra! I figure that normal temperatures for this time of year should be in the mid-fifties. Not this week, t...

 There are icicles everywhere. Riding along, you see scads of them, hanging on almost every building. I don't know why some buildings do...

 Our snow has been gone for a while; the temperatures are in the forties - a January thaw, I guess. There may be a snowstorm brewing for Thu...

 I'm enjoying the Christmas rest. We had snow again, on Friday, all night. It's been mostly cold, with a warm day every now and then...

  I finished tying the baby quilt today, and it's washed and ready for my friend's little one. I tied it on the "wrong" si...

  O God, you search me and you know me. All my thoughts lie open to your gaze. When I walk or lie down you are before me: Ever the maker and...

 We went on a little field trip to the cathedral in the city, a pilgrimage.  I had been there for Sunday mass a few times - it's a moder...

 We've seen a rabbit outside under the bird feeder, the past two nights, eating seed. The snow is crusty and hard, the days and nights a...

 Well, my time off has been lovely; a friend was over for lunch Wednesday. But then yesterday I felt like I might be coming down with someth...

 It rained, heavily, a while ago. I think it's going to be drier after this - the air, I mean. This week we've had a reprieve from t...

 It rained much of the day - it's pouring now - so I imagine the parades were cancelled. There were no military plane flyovers, which I ...

  O give thanks to the Lord for he is good, for his love endures forever.                                       - from  Psalm 136

 Another weekend with rain; it's a sure thing, every weekend there seems to be a tropical storm in the Atlantic that passes by (not too ...

 Hurricane Ophelia has been passing by at a distance, and so there's been a couple of rainy days here. I spent some time today switching...

 A true September day - the stillness of it. I can hear insects repeating themselves in the way they do, but otherwise, it's quiet. No b...

 I'm reading The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton. Our main character is in a dangerous situation, but thought he was quite alon...

The above is a quote from Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Adams. More of that later. I had a cute pillow from the thrift store, from w...

 "While you live, I seem to have a bank at Monticello on which I can draw for a letter of friendship and entertainment when I please. I...

 Juicy strawberries from the farmers' market, courtesy of a very nice friend.

 There is a fine art museum in Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner. I went with a friend . We'd tried going a few years back; got there...