Materfamilias Writes

Spring Blooms in Winter . . .

Spring Blooms in Winter . . .

Last weekend I did a wee walkabout in the garden with my camera. There were hellebores and mahonia japonica (oregon grape) with their frant yellow wee blooms By the pond there were more hellebores, rosy buds…

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Another Day Begins . . .

Another Day Begins . . .

 Really, who needs words?  A slight turn of my head as I sat at the computer screen this morning, and I grabbed my camera and headed to the beach. . .  IndigoAlison, here are landscape…

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Wildlife and Me. . . Island Solitude

Wildlife and Me. . . Island Solitude

I’ve been sequestered happily in my island home, puttering, clearing the top of my office desk, marking papers, filling out travel grant applications, writing course proposals, reading poetry, baking cookies, stitching up knitted dresses. .…

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Visibly Hand-knit: Here’s My Sweater Dress!

Visibly Hand-knit: Here’s My Sweater Dress!

I finally finished seaming up those long sides of my dress and might even find a few days cool enough to wear it before spring renders its pounds of wool (only exaggerating a little) just…

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Diana Athill’s Instead of a Book

Diana Athill’s Instead of a Book

Besidesreading for work, though, I’ve snuck in a few books just for me. Diana Athill’s Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend might be my favourite of the year so far; admittedly, I was predisposed…

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