All best wishes for 2012!

I know I need pictures, but...

...if I wait to find a suitable picture, upload it and all it will be months. Months to match the months since I last posted here, and we don't want that, do we now??

In northern VT a top of the postcard Christmas without the sun: snow falling slowly all day, family together, pretty tree, stuffed goose for dinner, many sweet treats, happy dogs. A fine and quiet day.

Merry Christmas, all!

Fall? For real??

Fall? Really ? Y'Sure?

No. I am not so sure. Last night a freeze. I suppose it did happen, since it was predicted and it is pretty cold, but I brought all of the plants that would freeze in. I hope they will be able to return outside in a couple days. Surely it will get warm again. Even if just for a little while.

Actually, not all of the plants came in. It seems that my rose geranium is missing. Yes, that's right missing. It was on the porch and now it is not. I realized this last night while I was bringing in the plants and noticed it was not among them. How weird. Where does a plant go? Who would take a plant? That idea is too much for me to consider a possibility. Strange, though.

This post was originally intended for this blog so I thought I'd copy it here, with the epilogue:

The following day:

Look outside, and see clumps of dirt on the edge of the granite wall. Go outside, with D, and there, lying below the wall is a tipped over clay pot with guess what lying next to it. The rose geranium. It was not plant napped! Even better, it did not freeze. The latter probably because there wasn't a frost. The former because there wasn't a plant napper. Just a plant mover and hider. Time to set up a neighborhood watch? Call the staties to dust for prints?

Daughter's wedding last weekend. Lovely, lovely, and so very happy. Exhaustion this week. I never knew putting an event like that was so  much work, even though there was tons of help from family and friends.
It was so sweet and touching. The whole thing, meeting his lovely family, friends together. The wedding itself, the whole thing. Lovely and beautiful.
 

Tentative Spring

And so, here it is SPRING! as per the calendar, anyway. The winter came and the snow is gone (pretty sure, of that, but I could be wrong. I always imagine that there is a small patch of snow hiding in the woods somewhere that hangs on, sort of like those persistent leaves, the ones that don't ever fall off of the trees but are parchment colour and dry. They whisper and shimmy in the wind but never fall. I wonder what happens to them when new leaves grow in the spring, but forget to look. Do they stay on? Are they the same ones that remain persistent year after year or are they replaced? These cogitations are what I get for walking dogs, I guess.)

And with spring comes the need for another update I suppose. I'll have to check out the pictures I have and see what can be done.