It’s been a week in gray scale. Between the lengthening dark hours and the relentless rain I did not see the sun until 3pm this afternoon. I haven’t taken a photo in days – no light. I’m bummed.
As I type this the clouds have overwhelmed and strangled the sunset. Darkness falls again.
color my world
I found a fun ( I thought it would be fun) knitting project on the internet – but I can say that just because a person can knit does not mean they know how to write a pattern for their project. Oh well, I may have a cockeyed bag under construction at the moment, but it is teaching me patience and basic math. Right brain – left brain exercise I guess.
Re-reading a favorite book – Underwater to get out of the Rain by Trevor Norton. The subtitle is a love affair with the sea. I’m extracting passages to share with you in another post. I wanted to be a Marine Biologist when I grew up. I also wanted to be a whale, but I got assigned to the human group this time around… whale or not I’ve always loved the sea.
Great Barrier Reef from the air
I read today there is an expected shortage of pumpkin for the holidays due to poor conditions at harvest. That news follows the expected shortage in Eggo Waffles too. What a mess – and Black Friday just around the corner when scarce $3 crap causes people to trample each other for that “must have” item. Gonna be a big week…
One more picture to brighten things up – a found a paper fold out turkey in the closet. My son loved this tacky thing when he was little. This is a close up of the “tail feathers.”
The first sock of the season is on the needles and a satsuma is on the menu for dessert. These are my way of accepting the natural spin towards winter. It’s been raining for the last three weeks, but we’ll leave that to the side for now.
I wish you could smell what is in the oven – roasted root vegetables – parsnips, carrots, potato, sweet potato and a sweet onion. Sprinkle of sea salt when they come out – yum.
I decided not to be a holiday hum-bug and make an effort to get in the swing of things. I like the holiday season just fine, but I detest all the commercialization and the drive to consume. I actually heard holiday music in a shop the other day. I was buying some yarn this afternoon and that shop had at least half the square footage devoted to holiday things – trees, ribbons, lights and GAG me those fake cinnamon scented pine cones. Why anyone in the PNW would BUY a pine cone confounds me. Come to my yard and haul off all you want!!!
I’m off to dig out the old faithful cookie recipes. Brown sugar cookies for my son and Italian nut balls with jam for my husband. I make them each their own stash.
The sock is calling me now – time for a few more rows before dinner. Be well and enjoy your week.
* see Mom – all those years of Latin and I finally found a way to work it into a post…
Latin aside – what I really wanted to share with you was a couple of pictures of a local labyrinth.
Labyrinth at Earth Sanctuary April 2007
There are some wonderful sites out of the web documenting the history of the labyrinth. One such site is Labyrinthos. Check out all the typologies – makes me want to collect all the rocks in my yard and get busy!
Other than trapping Minotaurs and evil spirits – the labyrinth is considered a form of pilgrimage. People can walk the labyrinth ascending towards enlightenment or salvation.
The path of the labyrinth is designed to help achieve a contemplative state, settling the mind by the loss of direction inside the windings.
Friday morning the air was so clean that all I could think was the Earth had washed all night to remove the scent of man. It may rain a lot where I live, but the air and water are extraordinary.
I’m annoyed. Why are so many of my photo links broken? I just spent the better part of an hour putting the links back together. I ended up deleting a bunch a posts too because there were just too many links to restore.
Remember the talking apple tree in the Wizard of Oz? Mean old tree. I was casting around for a video of that tree, but I found this instead. Even better. The entire Wizard of Oz in 5 minutes!
