Let it shine

Happy New Year

 light has returned

as an evidence 

of something new,

another year is coming 

Join me for Christmas Coffee

- I'm so glad to see you! I hope you feel my warmest welcoming hugs when we get inside the Old shop and Café. Outside it's cold and snowy so we all long for a warm cup of tea or coffee together with something sweet. (you can click on the following photos to enlarge them)

We find that the little room with the fireplace is waiting for us with its small antique tables and chairs. We're chatting about our lives and how we're going to celebrate Christmas. I think that our talking also will concern serious subjects of tragical incidents in the world, but I hope that we also share stories of the good news. Tell each other about people with so much of benevolence even if their deeds never will be on the headlines. 

This is also a place for tranquil moments which I think is on the top of the wishlist for many of us. Before we all return to our RL we look around in the shop and maybe find something for our selves or a present to someone we know.

 It's getting late and it's time to go outside, say goodbye and wish everyone

A Merry Christmas!

Books for Christmas

While I'm doing all the preparation for Christmas I also like to decorate the house with books that we've bought to our children for Christmas when they were younger. But a favorite I've got is a book that my husband bought to me in the early nineties when he studied English. It is The Jolly Postman, I love it  and my nieces too, so I will put this one in the guest room when they come for Christmas eve.

The book is like a postbag of real letters to well-known characters like Goldlock that you can open and read. And now we're talking REAL letters like we wrote in the "good old days"! Not an  e-mail or SMS...

The Christmas Coffee tradition

I think it's mesmerising (a new adjective I learned this year!) that it will be the third time that I ask you to join me some days before Christmas. I will follow the tradition and have this cyber meeting in the old shop and café not far away from my where I live. This time I'm sending you the invitation already now so you can put a notice in the calendar. I will be here waiting for you from the 18th of December  and I hope we can admire all the things in the shop and have a cup of coffee while we're catching up with all that have happened.

I'm looking forward to this very much, to see you all and you're welcome to send my invitation to other cyber friends that you would like to meet here. There's a place for everyone, we just put one more chair around the table.

Mist and snow

Out for a walk along the river, it was grey, not rainy but the mist was dense, and someone I met called it a horrible boring weather. Before I got out I had the same thoughts about the weather, but when I stood there I didn't agree as I just had told myself to stop taking photos as I was out for a power-walk. 

I really enjoyed the environment and the air felt very clean and easy to breath. It was so beautiful, the landscape was covered of something that gave a very calm and soft appearance. I decided that I was going to show some of the photos on the blog and without any kind of retouching, just with frames. 

I wasn't alone, there were a lot of people along the path this Sunday morning, many of them with their dogs. Another animal that flew over my head several times was the Canada Goose. They came howling in V-formations and I tried to get them which wasn't easy as I only had my mobile. I missed them all the time! When I was almost at home I heard them coming along the river. 

- Now I'm gonna "shot" them! 

 

Like a hunter with it's prey I felt really pleased , but the photo wasn't the sharpest so I permitted myself to play a little with this one only. If last weekend was Grey November, we can call this weekend White December. This is what I woke up to this morning: 

Studded tires

My studded tires have given me strength and courage. We haven't got any snow yet but there have been mornings with frost and ice. I'm so pleased when I have the time to take the bike instead of the car. I know that there will become mornings with inches of snow but I hope I will make it at least some days in a week even though.

One more chance

It was in the afternoon and the sun went down from the sky to a very low level and caressed the treetops. The sunbeams left a magical light on the steeple. I was hurrying up, running on the frozen fields as the sun beguine to get down behind the forest. I felt like I was competing against the Sun herself. When I was close enough I raised the camera and pulled the trigger....

...nothing happend!

The battery was empty! I had been out for a while and it was a little chilly so I guessed that was the reason to the quick "quietus" of my battery. Oh, I was so disappointed that I had missed that chance.

Than something got into my head, some kind of fighting spirit. I didn't want to lose. I picked out the battery from the camera, opened up my jacket and placed it on the naked skin in my armpit. I stood there for some minutes and saw the sun getting lower and lower, but before it disappeared totally I took out the battery quickly to avoid the chill outside my jacket. And, pulled the trigger again....

....it worked!

But only once, but that didn't matter to me because the sun vanished and I returned home as a winner.