Snow Pictures

The Solstice!

Welcome to the winter Solstice. I love this day, the shortest in the year for I am truly a winter girl and thrive in cold temps and low light. The snow outside is deep and glittery and although the day is brighter, there is no sun. The wind is beginning to blow and I can hear the chimes tinkling in the trees around the house and on the porch. Ahhh ... everything is so pretty, white and wintery. I love it. Just love it!

Jacob is dancing around me, skipping here and there chanting for my hair to hurry and dry so we can go build a snowman. I want to build a snow queen! Maybe I will lend her one of my tiarras! I am off to play in this amazing winter wonderland but I am leaving you with these beautiful snowflake photos. Wouldn't it be amazing to craft them into jewelry fit for a snow queen?xo, Lois

Oh, the weather outside is frightful.....it is snowing and blowing and a blizzard exsists outside the doors and windows of my home. We are not even due for the really big winds until later tonight and early tomorrow morning. Then the winds could equal a category one hurricane, gusts to 90mph! Wow! We have not had a snowstorm here like that since 1974. It is all very exciting but just horrible with a capital H for business.

Oh well, the kid inside me loves, LOVES the snow!

Our handsome teenage cat, Milagro who is now sharing my studio in this cold, cold December! I think he inspires my creativity especially when I trail after him cleaning up his messes. Curious kitty, that's him.

Getting Along

I am trying to get back into the swing of things, you know, work in the shop, enjoy the snow we have now, making jewelry and painting and I will be humming along all fine and then stop and think, " My mom is gone! " Really gone! I can't call her, can't ask her a question. There was so much I should have asked her about family, growing up, being a woman. I just didn't. A friend said it so well the other day; a girl just needs to know her mother is around, then she can do anything. I am sure this funk will lift shortly then I will truly be back. Till then....

My mother passed away today at about 1:30 my time.I will miss her a lot and our talks. She was very peaceful at the end and just simply stopped breathing. I will get back to life and this blog soon. xo.

A Very Sad Day...

... as my mother lingers near death in a hospital in Parkersburg, West Virginia, so far from here. I am not going to say anymore at this time on that. I do have a big headache from crying which began as soon as I found out yesterday morning. She has had lung cancer (DAMN! DAMN! CIGARETTES! ) but still this is all very sudden so the poem I posted the other day by Auden " Stop All the Clocks " ends up being prophetic, sad and oddly comforting.