The weekly photo challenge on WordPress for the week is : Rise / Set
world of ice and snow
refracted sunrise glows
shattering starlight
Copyright © 2018-03-30, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Cotoneaster fruit after yesterday’s winter storm, the bush to the east of the garden shed. We got quite a lot of snow, here. March typically has more snowfall than February. Because it’s warmer, I think.
old memories
surface when the silent snow falls
voices…music…wind
Copyright © 2018-03-05
Lizl Bennefeld
Fargo, N.D. USA
Thursday night and Friday, we got a new coating of snow, which involved a lot of shoveling and snow-blowing time on my husband’s part. I got to spend some of that time visiting with my sister in New England by telephone. We have determined that we talk together more often. It was good to catch up on what’s happening with the family. Neither of us is an initiator when it comes to making telephone calls. After the snowfall ended, I got out into the back yard with my camera, and also took some shots from the front door.
Generally, things have been going well at our house in spite of stuffy heads and some coughing. The dogs are in need of a trip to the groomer’s shop. I had to trim the hair around Thadd’s eyes, so that he could see. Charlie’s hair is finer and straight, while Thadd’s is totally curling and bushy.
We went to a visitation, yesterday evening, and had planned also to attend the prayer service for a man who was pastor at the church we attended when we got married, +25 years ago. Unfortunately, the receiving area had a very low ceiling, and there were lit candles, and so we ended up leaving after ten minutes or so. There were too many people in line to talk with his widow. I slept okay, last night, but still coughing, this morning. Will send a note to the family, once I replenish my stationery supply.
Having no decent pens, I’ve mail-ordered a couple that should be the right size and weight for my hand. Larger ones, which I have not bought for many years, are better, because I don’t get cramps in my hand from writing, like I do with the skinny ones, which I seem to clench at to keep them from slipping from between my fingers.
Ah! The time has slipped away, and I must eat breakfast.
Best wishes for your day!
So far, this has been a quiet month…sleeping in, recovering from the latest bouts of respiratory unrest and colds (perhaps, mild flu symptoms?), and a disinclination to do anything.
Enjoyed a long telephone call, last night, from a friend who moved to the Southwest U.S. some years ago. Fun to visit with someone, again. Also enjoyed getting a haircut, exchanging stories with my stylist. They gave their young child a live chicken for Christmas! So far it’s living in a coop in the garage and laying eggs. They’re contemplating (rural setting) expanding the chicken population, since it seems to be a great hit. I got to watch a couple of phone videos of the chicken recipient singing “Old McDonald Had a Farm” to the chicken.
My morning alarm has rung, and I must get out of bed and heat breakfast. (I cooked a tilapia fillet for the first time, last night, and it turned out well. Thinking to reheat the remaining ounces and call that breakfast.)
Best wishes for your day!
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muffled by the snow
distant sounds of digging out
the scrape of a shovelsnowplows will be out later
there’s time for another nap
Copyright © 2018-01-20, by Lizl Bennefeld.
We awoke to new-fallen snow and Scampers, who could hardly wait to get out into it again after a quick breakfast.
The forecast high was 11°F, and the temperature is now 5°F and falling. However, the sun has come out and the snowfall has ended. I am hoping for frost on the front window, tomorrow morning.
Things have been rather tangled, here, this year, what with the type-2 diabetes diagnoses (both of us), frigid weather, much snow (and sleet and rain and fog), postponed appointments and the fumbling for proper diets. I haven’t gotten out as much to take pictures. Conditions have not favored frost formations on the windows, either.
The puppies are showing signs of maturing. Not chewing so readily on towels, washcloths, upholstery and such. Although I did discover, while taking my husband’s new blue jeans out of the dryer, last night, that my puppy had eaten an entire belt loop from one of them. There has been almost no lint in the lint trap since I tossed all the stuff that had chewed spots.
I hear sounds of puppies and husband’s alarm clock. Guess it is time to accommodate morning rituals.
Hope your day is going along as you would have it be!
Elizabeth
dreams of winter’s drifts
memories of wind and clouds
snowflakes on my nosewarm embrace, hugs and kisses…
eating homemade noodle soup
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This has been a remarkably bad winter for frost on our windows. The “January” thaw has continued throughout February with only a few really low temperatures. And so, another photo from years past.
Still have not regained balance of life’s activities following the death of our dog, Samantha.
