All kinds of things to celebrate today.
We woke to the first snow in over 300 days
Gone in an hour, but the raised light level was a good start.
The days are stretching, the light getting stronger. Imbolc celebrates the upcoming arrival of growth and spring flowering.
And here's Edith Holden's February entry.
And yesterday was Schubert's birthday. He didn't have many, poor duck, but what he achieved in his life of composition!
Here's one of the great reasons to be on Twitter, a cellist with his dog, playing Schubert's Serenade outside his cottage in Western Ireland. Happy birthday, Franz
Happy day everyone, however you celebrate. Life's a banquet!
Imbolc blessings! We're having a snowy winter day here. Tomorrow the groundhog speaks!
ReplyDeleteA whole new bunch of things tomorrow!
DeleteSnow on candlemas is a good sign your winter will be short
ReplyDeleteThere is a little poem
If Candlemas day be dry and fair
Nursery Rhyme lyrics, origins and history
If Candlemas day (2 February) be dry and fair
The half o' winters to come and mair
If Candlemas day be wet and foul
The half o' winter's gane at Yule.
If Candlemas day be dry and fair
Nursery Rhyme lyrics, origins and history
Well, the snow was gone by mid morning February 1. Candlemas is tomorrow, the 2nd, so we'll see.
DeleteHappy February!
ReplyDeleteWow to 300 days
Yes, to Vermonters this probably seems unreal.
DeleteWell, I seriously doubt I'd be celebrating snow, even if it WAS the first in 300 days.
ReplyDeleteLearned another term from you - imbolc!
Only half an inch!
DeleteThank you. I am listening to that as I continue my blog reading.
ReplyDeleteYour sprinkle of snow looks lovely. I haven't seen snow where people live for decades but I do remember the particular light and the sense of peace.
I guess your suburb doesn't see much snow. I'm just as happy without it, really.
DeleteGroundhog Day--wonder what he'll say? Have a great evening.
ReplyDeleteWelcome sun! Brighter and warmer here too, though we’re going in the deep freeze this weekend. This winter is flying by…
ReplyDeleteJanuary certainly flew by.
DeleteThe first snow in 300 days?!? Somehow I imagine you are in snow alley (I think I made that up) - near the east coast, right? We've only had minor snows. It's been one of the two or tree mildest central Indiana winters in my memory. I'll take it! :)
ReplyDeleteI'll take it, too! Central NJ is often between two weather systems, and either two storms crash and we get Sandy, or three feet of snow, or two milder systems and we get mostly rain where further north it's snow.
DeleteSnow….a four letter word not allowed to be spoken in our house. Sand & Surf along with sea & sun are welcomed😊
ReplyDeleteOn a ‘bad winter’s day’ we can find snow just a couple of hours up the road from our house. It’s pretty for a few minutes then the novelty disappears.
This is an unusual winter, no digging out of cars at all! The first snow smells wonderful, and the light is lovely. After a while, not so much.
DeleteBloggers have taught me ‘white rabbit,’ and now I am learning of Imbolc.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're back on posting and commenting form so soon, AC!
DeleteYou got snow and we got a high temperature of almost eighty degrees.
ReplyDeleteI am not bragging about this. At all.
I guess yours is a tropical climate!
DeleteOh that's why Facebook reminded me about my St Brigid's cross. (Husband is pickling cabbage and the smell is filling the house.)
ReplyDeleteCabbage is likely to scent the entire neighborhood. That said, I wish you lived closer and I could pitifully beg for a jar of pickled cabbage. Red, my favorite.
DeleteWhether he sees his shadow or not has never meant a thing here. We will have winter longer than six weeks! Imbolc, I'll need to look that up. And St. Brigit. Cabbage is involved.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure cabbage is involved with Brigid, just with Liz's husband, or he with it.
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