Category: Winter Mood
Posts giving or discuss winter mood and ambience.
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The blank page… A blank page stares at me empty and white. I stare back casting my gaze out to scan for a sign, something to give me direction or hint at potential. Nothing meets my eye. It’s forbidding terrain. It will not reveal its secrets, but I know there’s something hidden here, something worth…
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Of winter blue… Ice and shadow and moonlit nights wash the winter world in blue dowsed water color. Rain and water vapor muddle the light and lingering water drops and puddles reflect back the cast of blue. Snow glints back the bright or grey blue of the sky and edges up in crosshatched shades of…
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Apple cinnamon goodness… What is more welcoming than walking into a room filled with the sweet and spicey smell of hot apple and cinnamon? It’s an aroma that conveys reception: you belong here in this enchanting place where waiting for you is a steaming mug of mulled cider (or a slice of apple pie). Cider…
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Journey with me… A long day of travel on a frosty tree-lined remote road wears away at the last stores of your energy. Your once limber movements stiffen as the sun sinks rapidly below the horizon. The degrees drop lower and lower and a chill sets into your limbs. Aches and weariness creep over you…
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Enhancing winter ambience… Week 2 of winter arrives on the last day of November this year with forecasts of rain, rain, rain heading into December. There’s nothing like the patter of rain on the roof and breath of chilly air through a cracked window to make me breathe deep and burrow into the covers. It’s…