In case you were wondering...

In case you were wondering...

This blog exists to encourage all those who have ever wanted--and needed!--a tiny getaway close to home. A workshop, playhouse, garden shed, sanctuary, mini-greenhouse, studio, home office; whatever it is you need, it IS doable, with some sacrifice, imagination, and compromise.

It helps if you're handy, too.

Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Winter at the Shed

It's been a while since I added new images here...but I spend part of every day in our little sanctuary, sometimes alone, often with my husband, and it is precious to us.  Peaceful, beautiful, close to nature...magic.

January snow...there's nothing like that warm, inviting glow against the chill of oncoming night.

Almost night...and worth getting snowy boots to capture...
Art supplies and cups of tea in my handmade mug and the company of tiny bears...I sketched them soon afterward!  This is Cocoa and Sebastian...

A place to meditate and read and create...carve stamps, journal, enjoy the gifts of the earth and be grateful...
Our infrequent, shy visitor, the female flicker...

a downy woodpecker male...

brilliant cardinal and blue-shadowed forest...

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Winter is here...



Wishing you all a wonderful Solstice and a most peaceful and joyful Christmas season!

Day before yesterday was a great day to sit and sketch...the birds were literally flocking at the feeders.
Beautiful against the snow...

Plenty of peanuts for Mr. Downy...

The male goldfinch looks a bit disgruntled.  Of course what does a "gruntled" bird look like?

OF COURSE you have to take a photo of a cardinal in the snow.  J. calls him Richelieu...

My new crabapple was coated in crystal!
Late afternoon...no fire in the firepit just now, thanks...

The view from the shed door...



Thursday, February 24, 2011

Winter wasn't finished with us...


Yesterday, I was sitting on the deck, barefoot, reading.  Today?  Not so much.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

WINTER!


It's been cold, snowy, and icy for days now, but J. makes sure I can get to the shed.  This morning, since they're calling for Snowmageddon and ice, he's gone out with the Ice Melt!

He's been joining me more often since we got a comfortable chair for him, too, and it's lovely! 

I've been working on a series of new mini-classes out there, and it's the perfect place for it.  Not so many distractions, no Internet, no Facebook, no Flickr, no email (though J. did bring the netbook out to work on taxes one day, and said he got the 'net on it, SSHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!  I'm pretending I did NOT hear that!)

I've got a pretty good setup for shooting mini-videos for the classes, but the photo I shot of it didn't work--will try again!

Nature continues to amuse and amaze me, there...who knew how much I was missing, in the house! 






I never realized till now that gray squirrels are such gourmands!  They only eat the germ and discard the rest of the kernel like picky kids at the dinner table.  No worries, though, the blue jays, raccoons, and fox squirrels don't mind cleaning up their plates!  I keep an assortment of magnifying devices at the shed to help me see these details better.

All in all, I've been working hard and playing hard, and it's great!

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Snow days


The sky was a beautiful warm peach this morning, and the sun hadn't yet cleared the East hill beyond the shed...the snow still looked blue and cold.  And well it might, it was 10 degrees when I went out to take photos, and had been colder still.


Enough warmth escapes through the roof to soften the snow and make it slide down the smooth metal.  The icicles curved oddly, and I had to get a photo!


We got about 8" of snow; I wanted to get out to the alley and get a shot of the shed before it got too tracked up.  Those are mostly my footprints and the neighborhood cats, along with a few hungry squirrels digging beneath the snow for their buried provisions.

And sure enough, the bowl of water on the floor inside had a rime of ice on it...

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

icy morning sunrise



Glowing in the cold...



toasted muffin and marmalade

This warmed me up nicely...home made 7-grain/carrot/raisin muffin and marmalade...

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