Actually these pear blossoms came out a bit before June 21 but I liked them so much I used them on the invitation to the Summer Solstice event we held last week on Midsomer. That particular happening took so much of time and effort that I had to drop this for awhile- but oh the clearing out that got done! I'm doing a lot of that right now because- well we've been here 30 years now and it's a good time to reassess things. Since then the hump of the year has been surmounted, an

Even though I've done many watercolor sketches and paintings over the years of the peach blossoms just outside the window where our breakfast table is I never can resist doing yet another. We have two trees there now and it's a mini orchard just outside the back door. There is something about them that is the very essence of the newness that spring embodies, pure in pale color and with the buds like tiny pink moons. It is so cold this year that they are slow to open which is

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