cheating

This was an hour ago



right now the sun is out brilliantly, there is flocks of birds in the sky, but i can't see them, only hear there happy calls, there's fresh deer prints in the yard.

I do not care what you think.
I love winter
you don't know what you're missing
to have the world draped in white and shine
to hear the clear bells of migratory birds in total stillness
ruffling in the branches of birds who stay
to smell the highbush cranberries as the frost is breaking them open

ah i feel i am cheating again (i just said that in my comments last post) cheating in the sense that i say one thing, but do the other.

So here i am loving this snow, and there i am having to tell you that i am going to the Southern States for a month or so. I am leaving the 25th of October.
Now i am thinking; that's why winter came so early, so i can still post lots of winter snow and ice pictures, tell lots of stories of cold weather by the warm wood stove, before i enter this different world of sand and red rocks where only the adobe houses are white. I imagine, i haven't been there yet, and haven't done much reading and looking at pictures yet.

Mendenhall Harvest Fair

Yesterday, the mendenhall community held it's first ever harvest fair!
Thanks to Kathy!(on the left).
And thanks to all that helped out and all that came out!
We are a small community, what was it Kathy?; 55 lots and approximately the same amount of people living here.
To put something on like this in a small community. Every individual taking part is very essential! We had so much fun.


note! look through the window; SNOW
Don't you love it!?
And then there was mud (Muddyhall, the place was called when we first moved here 15 years ago. Mud is good it means the snow is trying to melt.
And our new playground(which is build on sand) was opened last night is now named -Mendenhall Hooligans- The kids played there of and on till late in the very dark. Till... they heard a bear in the bushes and rushed to the safety of us standing around the fire. Time to go home!

aurora borealis

AuroraMAX
This is a new website, where you can see the Aurora borealis life, somewhere in the sky above Yellowknife NWT.

Here the sky is grey
the world still dark
and very very still
snow covering
summer so recently
i wish i wish
my words were magic
and contained
the peace
the peace i feel
when i walk in the darkness of the early morning
in this white white snow

Yes,

it's here!
Yesterday i was gloriously happy,
with the first dusting,
the fall colors more outstanding by the whole array. Today more sobering
giggling really;
it's here
and one never knows if it's here to stay.

birds

Another beautiful day in paradise.

White-winged crossbill

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The potatoes are in, i brought in all the lettuce that was left in the garden and left the swiss chard which can stand a little more frost. We also picked more cranberries today and brought home a grouse for thanksgiving dinner.
By the way, we eat a lot of cranberries these days. I snack on them, put them in the salad, have them for breakfast, cook them in curries or with any meat. I made some jam and juice.

and really while everybody uses them in baking, i promise i will too, it's just i don't bake very often. And i forgot i do have to make some cranberry sauce yet to go with the grouse.

patato harvest

Don went hunting

i am still digging

not a bumper crop

but enough to last us all winter into next summer

yes, this is our little helper

later the cats came out to

help us with that one

cones!

the spruce tree tops are loaded with cones

'they'

say it's going to be a cold winter