Bindi's first venture into the wide open outdoors!

sunshine so welcome

Sometimes

Sometimes, when a bird cries out,
Or the wind sweeps through a tree,
Or a dog howls in a far off farm,
I hold still and listen a long time.

My soul turns and goes back to the place
Where, a thousand forgotten years ago,
The bird and the blowing wind
Were like me, and were my brothers.

My soul turns into a tree,
And an animal, and a cloud bank.
Then changed and odd it comes home
And asks me questions. What should I reply?

- by Hermann Hesse, translated by Robert Bly

(poem read at the close of tonight's yoga class)

A few days after a substantial snowfall, much of the loose stuff had been shaken off limbs by wind - but I noticed a funny phenomenon with lumps of snow remaining amoung clusters of branches...


Unfortunately this was the fateful walk during which my toes froze!

been seeing these everywhere this week! :)



(poor photo of view from upstairs barn window)

The day Sparky & I discovered some sort of man-made looking survivalist type structure in our woods!





blurry picture of a pretty little piece of firewood

Two awesome new Naples, NY entities for the new year

Watched this song performed live on New Year's Eve at the Naples Hotel = perfect way to enter 2014!

So behind on posting photos - I will soon - in the meantime, enjoying the season:

"It's such a shame it's only one day every year,
Three hundred and sixty-four days full of doubts and fear
You've been saving your love up,
Let it out,
'Cause Christmas is here."

- XTC, Thanks for Christmas