closing off winter

a view to our garden, this year and last year. I made a winter-photo-set here. Days are still hovering between cold and warm, but I decided to close off winter for now - no matter how much snow and wind there might be left still.

snowday

We got one snowday! We made a snowman, but he is all gone today.

I started making a bench in the kitchen with white tiles.

Top: view from the garden

Bottom: the bench, my town

end of something

My hibernaton-time is over today - renovation is taken up again, stitches are sewn, veggie-garden planned, things cut and cinnamon rolls baked. Days are lighter, the wind calmer, and spring flowers are starting to grow in the garden.

pink mood

grey is nothing worse than all colours mixed together, Jo reminded me in a comment to my last post. Here are some pink appearances - evening sun on a short visit, drawing table, baking cinnamon rolls.

a grey study

what can I say about these grey days of late winter?

winter reading

I read Tove Janssons Moominland Midwinter. The story of how Moomintroll wakes up too early from hibernation to explore the unknown world of winter is just perfect for these first, quiet days of the year. Quiet and cold. This has been the coldest day so far after we moved to this old house. I keep close to the fire, making plans, writing lists, preparing the first steps into this new year.
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One of the first things that happened this year: someone sent me flowers!

2009

Iceroses are climbing the windows, the fire is burning, bread is baked and babies are happy. 2009 has started beautifully.

Happy new year!

a week for two: the end

on our way to the gallery again we saw: some rural grafitti, frozen sea and the sun for the first time after a week of storms and darkness. I thought I would make the tiger lots of nice and fancy winter clothes while we were home alone, but he wanted it otherwise. Moving around everything upstairs was fine with him, though, so now we have a book-room, my office turned into our bedroom, our bedroom into playroom and lots of other new solutions, some of which I might show you soon. Now orangutang and father is back, heavily, happily sleeping in their new bedrooms. Maybe now I will find some time for making something nice and fancy for tiger ...