So, here’s a pictorial view of my week.
I made almond cookies for Chinese New Year. Extremely tasty with Amaretto and orange slices.
Honorable Almond Cookie
I supervised a bunch of 4 year-olds (68 of them, actually!) as they played in the Wehr Nature Center’s play space with spray bottles of diluted liquid watercolors.
Like a giant sno cone
I watched the sun setting in the west from my second story bedroom window.
"World turning on the burning sun...." (James Taylor)
And I felt the frost fly up on feathered wings into the morning light…and into my bones.
This morning, I took a group of Kindergarteners out on a nature hike. One little boy walked beside me, counting excitedly. “I found a hundred things!” he shouted. Oh, there so many more than that, I thought.
—Say it, no ideas but in things—
nothing but the blank faces of the houses
and cylindrical trees
bent, forked by preconception and accident—
split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained—
secret—into the body of the light!
-William Carlos Williams (from “Paterson – Book One”)
Things…winter things…frosty filigreed, foggy white, cold-packed and angular, distant and spare.
Ideas…winter ideas…hard and dense, insular, desperate, furtive.
When I scrolled down and hit the blue version… I couldn’t help myself but go oooooooooooooooo! sumptiousness and I love the coloured snow..
Yeah, I like how that one turned out, too. It’s fun manipulating color and tint and saturation and contrast and all that!
positively addictive ! Did you take a look for the fire screen saver I mentioned yesterday?
I did a Google search for Diageo_autumn_collection and got nothin’… 😦
awwww try this http://download.cnet.com/3D-Realistic-Fireplace-Screen-Saver/3000-2257_4-10210081.html
The preview shot looks pretty good, but the product reviews are primarily negative. Three words caught my attention: “it ain’t free”. So, I think I’ll stick to my current screensaver, Pinkle sleeping in the sunny armchair. Thanks for the referral, though!
Oh sorry Scilla.. I just googled fire screen saver and that was what came up so I pasted the link form you just beforem I dashed off to work. Confess I didn’t really look at it 😦 I can’t find where I got mine from…Pity as it’s so fab !