Simple Some of Here

Bread dough snails

Ice Snails

Old shop bags and a piece of string make the best kites of all on windy days.

Velvety green moss on grey stone.

Old Man's beard plucked straight from a sleepy giant.

Playing get the ball from the dog.

Simple good things to remember on these wintry days.  Simple things that stay with us.

Still Winter..

Well, that Brother North Wind is still out playing with King Winter. It is cold and grey and we've been having quite a few dustings of snow.



I love the way the snow decorates the trees in the woods - a dusting on the side the snow fell. It looks beautiful. This picture doesn't show that beauty clearly, but I have put it here to remind myself of the beauty.



Here, on this farm something very unique is grown. Fields of cocoa. Leo says that these rich brown bare fields are fields of cocoa. He quite likes the look of snow dustings on his cocoa fields too!



Here is King Winter still about enjoying himself. We have a few snowdrops and root babes and a sheep mama and her lamb to try and give him the hint to make way for Spring.

Wintry walks this week

Lots of walking and exploring.



Bare trees and green moss.



Slate grey stone walls covered with moss divide up the fields.



Happy free nature boy.

Snowmen!

So much snow, so much fun building snowmen!



These are Sol's snow guards. Beware anyone approaching!



A big family effort to make this one.

Frost pictures

Jack Frost was very creative last night. We awoke this morning to the most beautiful frost paintings on all our windows.

Beautiful imaginings of icy fires, flowers, flames, dragons, forests, fairies....

Our days

I have been quiet! We have been walking and walking this wintry landscape, collecting treasures along the way - evergreen, holly, sticks, rosehips. It is grey and misty and muddy and invigorating out there.

We've been making simple wreaths with what we collect - simple, no frills, made lovingly by lots of hands.

We've decorated our Christmas tree and keep adding other bits we make.

We've made five pointed star ginger cookies since we are all heavenly stars and since we have been exploring Number 5.

And we have been keeping well away from the frantic seasonal pulse out there and staying here wrapped within the peace of wintry nature and warm home. I haven't bought or made any Christmas gifts yet, not even for the children, and I haven't planned Christmas day even though we will have ten family guests here, but I have loved every slow, gentle flowing days, living the season, loving my children and delighting in the joy of an active babe's movements in my baby tummy which is growing and growing beautifully round. Happy, slow days.