February 27, 2026 The Kitchen Door Jasmine-like scent from the flowering citrus trees. Bird song in the garden, with the goldfinches just starting to yellow up. Valentine roses- deep pink and finally starting to open... But outside? Sixty mph winds and looking out the windows- entirely white- two feet of snow, with more to come. Blizzard. No power. Well, looks like we're in for awhile- to write, try to catch something of the storm on paper, knit, read an actual book, cook-

January 27, 2026 We are having the most wonderful winter. This is a piece of lace trim I used for my costume for our Solstrice Singers program this December. It so personifies what snowflakes are to me that I can't help but feel it brought on all the snow that still blankets the whole neighborhod three weeks later. Quite a few years ago now, in 2014, we had an epic winter. Since then the snow here has been so spotty and climate news so dire that I feared we would never see an