Christmas Feasting

It is so nice to be in my own (humble) home for Christmas this year, as much as we miss our extended family.  I must admit that it has been a real pleasure to plan my own menu for Christmas dinner for the first time in my 29 years and 4 years of marriage.
Sarah and [...]

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snowstorms, sleepwalking, & squaredancing

This morning the Philadelphia region was plunged back into an unwelcome winter after a few days of gloriously warm spring weather. The view out my windows this morning reveals an ice-pelted, frozen landscape. My poor husband was a bit unprepared for the sudden drop in temperatures yesterday. Having been too warm in a sweater the [...]

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Warm Wishes from our Snow Bunker

Happy St. Valentine’s Day!
A winter blanket is covering our world this morning. Here are a few pictures we snapped on our walk:
The creek behind our apartments –iced over.

My eskimo hood came in handy to ward off little ice pellets and blustery winds!
Wishing you an abundance of love and affection today, time to be with family, [...]

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winter poem

Snowflakes
Out of the bosom of the Air
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent and soft and slow
Descends the snow.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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More pictures of the Great Snow-In

For more excellent pictures of our incredible weekend snowfall, check out the talented photojournalism of our neighbor over at Sacred Journey.
It is 33 degrees today and sunny, with no more precipitation expected this week - let the slow melt begin.

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Welcome back, Winter, and Musings on history, story, and faith

Winter has returned to the city of brotherly love, after about a month’s hiatus. Temperatures have been steadily dropping from mild and spring-like to chilly again and today we have some lovely, swirling falling snow. After a lazy morning we are now established in our friendly neighborhood Panera for our Saturday ritual of studying and [...]

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Of Liberty Bells and Enchiladas

It is a gray January day outside with a light drizzle, perfect for sipping coffee and being lazy. Mike is reading Narnia and I have been sewing in my jammies. We have had a lovely restful vacation with family the last two weeks and are loathe to return to normal life! It will be back [...]

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simple pleasures at Christmastime

the first snowfall of the season
the hush of quieted streets, purity of scene
bowl full of oranges, like miniature sun-globes
draping my bathrobe on the radiator cover, then post-bath, stepping into its toasty warmness
the snow-dance of birds and squirrels outside my winter window
spiced coffee in my favorite mug
a capella music - the glory of Handel’s Messiah- Judy [...]

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poem for first snow

Robert Frost’s “The Onset”
Always the same, when on a fated night
At last the gathered snow lets down as white
As may be in dark woods, and with a song
It shall not make again all winter long
Of hissing on the yet uncovered ground,
I almost stumble looking up and round,
As one who overtaken by the end
Gives up his [...]

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For Building 15 . . .

on snowfights

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