Joyeux Fêtes
27 Dec 2017 07:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Happy Holidays, everyone. I guess I'm posting too late to legitmately wish you all a Merry Christmas, so general holiday greetings it is.
In this season, I gifted myself with grace.
Instead of making sure that supper was ready exactly on time, I took a moment to admire thischaffinch bullfinch (thanks 
nipernaadiagain) at sunset:
and walk to the top of the pasture to photograph this cloud that was doing its best to make a local volcano look like the scientists are wrong in saying it is extinct:
Instead of worrying about mess, I let the kids do their own thing and prepare Sprout's created recipe for "rollashines."*
Instead of baking another batch of cookies, I took a walk with the family in the Christmas Eve fog:
I hope you are all being gracious and kind to yourselves this holiday season. See you next year, if not sooner.
Happy Holidays, everyone. I guess I'm posting too late to legitmately wish you all a Merry Christmas, so general holiday greetings it is.
In this season, I gifted myself with grace.
Instead of making sure that supper was ready exactly on time, I took a moment to admire this
nipernaadiagain) at sunset:and walk to the top of the pasture to photograph this cloud that was doing its best to make a local volcano look like the scientists are wrong in saying it is extinct:
Instead of worrying about mess, I let the kids do their own thing and prepare Sprout's created recipe for "rollashines."*
Instead of baking another batch of cookies, I took a walk with the family in the Christmas Eve fog:
I hope you are all being gracious and kind to yourselves this holiday season. See you next year, if not sooner.
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* Sprout invented rollashines (kind of a stovetop cookies with wildly variable ingredients and amounts, or shall we say "highly personalizable) when she was two or three. I still have the paper where she drew the many shapes a rollashine can be take, even what she calls "Chinese rollashines" for some reason. :P Junebug, now to be known as Farmer Boy, at his request, loves making them, too.
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Date: 27 Dec 2017 01:38 pm (UTC)"Rollashine" is such a great term, and seems perfect for the cookie type. Also, especially with certain fillings, they sound delicious.
The photos make my heart swell, they are so beautiful. I love your (? or someone's) shadow presence in the warm light of sunset (or maybe -rise) in the last picture. I love the rosy breast of the bullfinch--rosy like the color of the light in that last photo. I love that volcano remembering its active days, and the ghostly, misty landscape you went for a walk in.
Sounds like a beautiful Christmas <3
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Date: 28 Dec 2017 05:44 pm (UTC)And yes, c'est moi in the shadow or the shadow is in me; I am the shadow...however you want to look at it.
How is your holiday season treating you?
Very apt icon you have. :D