I have never shoveled so much snow in my entire life as I did this past Wednesday.  The storm had started the night before and seemed to have stopped by the next morning…I stayed home anyway, because the roads just looked terrible and I could log on from home and get some work done, and [...]

I hadn’t heard anything about this so-called winter storm until I went into work yesterday, and then it was all anyone could talk about.  I don’t put stock in such mutterings; I believe it when I see it!
Well, for what it is worth, this is what I saw when I peeked out the door this [...]

I think I have probably convinced myself that I am a gloomy, grey weather lady; that mists and fog and eternal sunless mornings are the stuff of perfect days.  And maybe to an extent I am.  But I think my body actually needs the sunlight, and growing green things and balmy breezes every once in [...]

Christmas was rainy and quiet this year. The Man presented me with a home-made card emblazoned with the phrase HAVE A SMELLY CHRISTMAS, and which included a gift certificate for The Perfumed Court. I wish I could say that I decided to hang onto it for a rainy day. But …it’s already [...]

Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.
Even as our cloudy fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the white countenance confession,
The troubled sky reveals
The grief it feels.
This [...]