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The latest from Our Little House in the Big Woods
- Spring is bustin’ out all over (and a blogging milestone)
- Traveling from little house in the woods to big city on the coast
- Healing a broken toe, watching the snow melt
- The maze is your labyrinth
- Mindfulness, equanimity–and a broken toe
- The perils and ecstasy of walking on snow
- Loss and gain
- Sad transitions
- Snow, snow, snow and it’s really __ __ __ __ __
- Vegetable scrap smiley for our company
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Tag Archives: cold
A million sparkling angels
Monday night: first real snow of any accumulation. Three inches of silvery shining shimmering icy wet snow. As we slumbered at midnight, the soft cold snow tumbled from the heavens toward earth, a million sparkling angels blessing the frozen earth. … Continue reading
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Tagged cold, joy, life, Michigan, musings, nature, outdoors, photography, seasons, Silver River, snow, thoughts, Upper Peninsula, winter, woods
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Old Man Winter wears a beard of snow.
Old Man Winter wears a beard of snow. You can ice-skate in the frozen pools of his eyes. You can sled down his snowy chest. You can drink hot cocoa against his slow beating heart. Old Man Winter takes a bride each December. You … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, cold, creativity, forest, life, Miscellaneous, musings, nature, outdoors, philosophy, spirituality, thoughts, winter, woods, writing
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Hi ho the dario the farmer in the woods.
Here we are. Mid to late September. Still working in the garden in front of our house. Still pulling plants (feeding them to the deer who have been zapped away from the garden by the handy electric fence) and harvesting delicious broccoli, … Continue reading
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Tagged cold, food, garden, gardening, gratitude, home, Juicer, kale, Lake Superior, life, manure, Miscellaneous, musings, nature, organic, outdoors, personal, plants, rye grass, vegetables, woods
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The Edge of the Known World
Assignment: walk to the edge of the known world. Walk where no man (or woman) has ever walked before. At least not this year! Walk to…the edge of the ice. You can do it. Here’s what you need to do. … Continue reading
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Tagged cold, ice, icebergs, Keweenaw Bay, Lake Superior, life, musings, nature, outdoors, philosophy, photography, thoughts, Upper Peninsula
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Gratitude for winter
I am grateful for winter today. For the white beauty of snow drifts, for blowing snow squalls. For the cold North Wind, blowing across Lake Superior, nipping our cheeks and quickening our heartbeat. For wood stoves and firewood and a … Continue reading
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Tagged cold, gratitude, Lake Superior, life, Native American, north wind, personal, snow, thankfulness, thoughts, Upper Peninsula, winter
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I ran away from home again…
Took my little red wagon (errr…my silver Buick) and headed down the driveway. Goodbye, wood stove. Goodbye, house. Goodbye, Barry. Oh dear, this happens quite regularly. One minute you’re sitting there in the house checking email and fiddling your thumbs … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, cold, life, Marquette, personal, photography, Tha restaurant, thoughts, Upper Peninsula, winter, winter squash
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The sound of gunshot at midnight
You awake at midnight, heart pounding. Gunshot! It resounds through the woods like the crack of a rifle. Nervously you propel out of your warm flannel sheets to investigate. Crack! Again it resounds. You open the deck door and listen. … Continue reading
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Tagged cold, Huron Bay, ice, ice fishing, Lake Superior, life, nature, outdoors, personal, photography, thoughts, Upper Peninsula, winter, woods
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Dreams of ice and sunlight
Silver-finned lake trout glide deep below the surface of Lake Superior, ice already submerging their midnight dreams. On the rocky bottoms they move silently in almost total darkness. Their eyes dream shadows. They swim to a different drummer, an underwater … Continue reading
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Tagged cold, dreams, fish, ice, Keweenaw Bay, Lake Superior, lake trout, musings, philosophy, photographs, spirituality, thoughts, winter, writing
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When your snowshoes talk to you…
You know it’s time to go outside when your snowshoes start talking to you. You can hear them, way out in the shed, begging you to get dressed in your warm winter clothes and come outside. “HOW MANY DAYS ARE … Continue reading
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Tagged cedar, cold, fun, life, nature, outdoors, personal, photography, shelf fungus, snowshoes, winter, woods
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