Criss cross

Looking closely at the sprigs of this bush, I can see tiny little criss cross marks. It's cold here now in Maryland, but a warm front is coming this weekend. And, if I'm lucky, my sister Char is coming. I hope I'm lucky.

Just a little bit

I love snow. I don't love it when I've been stuck in it for weeks on end, but a little snow just makes me happy. I enjoy wintertime, too. I like being outside in the cold and coming in to a wonderful warm house. And yesterday we had just a touch of snow here. People I worked with had as much as four inches at their houses, just a bit north of where we are.
I'll keep hoping. Maybe we'll get a little bit more.

A dusting of snow

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

Now, can you name that movie? I will tell you that it's a classic from 1957.

Longing

I miss the broodmares and the foals who are beginning to be born about now. I just do.

Blue

Nah, I'm not blue. I'm just going through some files from last Spring. It makes me feel as little warmer. Because we all know how cold it is out there.

Ode to an American master

Andrew Newell Wyeth passed away in his sleep today at his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He was 91 years old.

His paintings evoked a nostalgic vision of times past.

I lived nearby Chadds Ford in the 1980's when Mr. Wyeth was the subject of an intense media spotlight for his "Helga" series of 45 paintings and 200 sketches. These pictures, many of them nudes, were the product of hundreds of modeling sessions with one of his neighbors, Helga Testorf. No one else, not even his wife, had previously known about the series, and their disclosure to the public was arguably the art event of the decade.

May he rest in peace.

New growth

The light was all wrong, but I went ahead anyway and took this macro photo of a bloom that's on my one houseplant. I'm not even sure of the name of this large green leaved, bushy plant.

I used to have lots of plants. But somehow, over the years, they disappeared. Especially after that last move. That about did me in.