Seasons Greetings!

Seasons greetings to you all! It is looking like it will be a white Christmas after all. While we'd had some snow a few weeks back, it had all melted and then the days alternated between rain and sunshine, some of them cold and some downright suntanning weather. A few days ago it was 19 degrees! Can you believe it? But as I said, Seasons Greetings and best wishes for the New Year to one and all.

I am often glad that I am forced to get out of the house in the morning to take care of Sierra and Ambra. Today was one of those times because the light was soft, and it was not too cold even though it had snowed the day before. The snow was dry and powdery and only ankle deep. At moments like that I am sometimes tempted to be spontaneous, be the wild one (yeah right!), and throw caution to the wind and ------go for a walk. But then common sense prevails, "you need to have breakfast, you haven't had a shower yet, you are in your pjamas......", and I usually listen to that little practical self that sits on my shoulder and I go back to the house, the fire and my first cup of coffee of the day. But after sitting around a bit, and doing a few things I finally felt I could justify slacking off to enjoy this beautiful day up close.

The nice thing about our property is that we can go for a walk and see a variety of views and vistas. Open snowy fields with that blazing blue sky above, little brooks trickling darkly beneath overhanging branches that are weighted down by fat cushions of snow, tall evergreens with branches draped in overcoats of glistening crystals and distant hills lying quiet and glazed under a blanket of white and blue. So very pretty and we feel very blessed to be able to have this experience in total.