How Cold Is It?

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How Cold is it? The temperature outside took a nose dive this weekend with windchills at around zero and that is warm compared to what many others are feeling. I’ve been hearing wild numbers like the thermometer reading 17 below zero and windchills at 30 to 40 below.  Zero is plenty cold enough for me, but not too cold for …

1st Sunday Devotional – Winter Beauty

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“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.” ~John Burroughs Winter hasn’t shown up on the calendar, but it has shown up around here in the air. No snow to notice yet, but that too will come. In …

Folklore Winter Predictions

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“Squirrels gathering nuts in a flurry, Will cause snow to gather in a hurry.” The weather forecasters are telling us we are getting ready to have a preview of winter next week. Cold with maybe some snowflakes. Nothing like this picture that was from a true winter snow in January or February. But a Facebook friend did share a similar …

Happiness is a Poem and a Flower

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“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” (Hal Borland) “Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.”  (Bill Nye) I’m wishing I could spot some little spring beauty flowers like those above, but not yet this year. Those little blooms are still sleeping under the snow that has stuck …

Surprised by Icicles

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Are those the magic fairy wands glistening on the trees or only winter icicles that I see? (Anonymous) I took a break from trying to flesh out a new story idea yesterday and went walking. Walking is a good time for thinking. You see everything around you, but you don’t have to really think about how you’re moving your feet …

January – the Month of Dreary or the Month of Beginnings?

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. (Edgar Allen Poe) Can’t you imagine Poe writing that on a January Monday midnight?Chilled to the bone and unhappy, but with pen in hand? I hope you’re not cold or unhappy. But let me ask you. Do you like winter? Do you like January? Or is it the month …