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Here I am with a Creative Potager bonus post today. I am blaming it on the snow. Big flakes started rolling past our large picture window looking out over the valley at dusk. We don’t get much snow on Mayne Island and seldom in November. I was up before blue dawn like a kid on Christmas morning.
The far side of the valley was a bit warmer and did not get the same three inches of wonder as we did half way up the cliff.
David’s gate that he built a year and a half ago looks extra special in the snow.
Then there are these red begonias.
And this is all I can see of the yellow calendulas shown in Thurday’s post.
But this is my favourite image of the morning. It is a photo I took as I was sitting down to upload and edit this morning’s photo shoot.
La casa de inspiracion has never felt better.
Sprout question: What are your favourite moments of winter?
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17 thoughts on “Mayne Island in November Snow”
November 20, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Terrill – Imagine my surprise and delight to see that you had a new post on a Saturday! OHhhhhhhhhh it’s gorgeous – simply gorgeous. Please tell David I think his gate his extraordinary.
Sprout question: What are your favourite moments of winter?
Sitting in front of a crackling fire!
November 20, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Laurie I couldn’t resist with all that lovely snow out side! I read your comment to David straight away. And I have been thinking about your crackling fire all morning… and that big tea kettle sitting there steaming away ready to make mugs of tea or cocoa. I have some pecan-coconut fudge to bring for sharing.
November 20, 2010 at 9:50 pm
I just came out of a client session and you’ve all been enjoying the pecan-coconut fudge – scoot on over and make room for me!
November 20, 2010 at 10:36 pm
umm!- umm! just a minute…my mouth is full!…………………. okay… “sure, you can squeeze right in beside me. I saved three large pieces cause I was sure you would be coming back.”
November 21, 2010 at 3:41 am
Can I share some….I will bring the hot chocolate AND marshmallows
November 21, 2010 at 6:15 am
Please do! Schooch on in here. Laurie is nodding off but I am still good for a bit of a visit. Jeff has taken all the dogs for a walk and Sam is not yet back from the opera. So looks like it might be just you and me for awhile.
November 20, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Beautiful! Nature dressing up in her winter ball gown! Thank you for the extra blog.
I think first snow is always the best…
November 20, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Yes Jeff it was very exciting to see nature throw off her usual Mayne Island drag grays and step into something white and shiny so early in the year. I too love the first snow best.
November 20, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Yet a further frosty perspective on the beauty that informs Mayne Island. Yes, I would well imagine it’s rare to have this kind of moderate dusting (or even a more concentrated fall) in your parts, and I know what snow can bring. Here is the NYC area we have been walloped with multi-foot blizzards in the past few years, and it’s taken weeks to recover from the pulverizing effects. Yet there is a serenity and an incomparable pictorial magnificence with snow falling that virtually stops everything in it tracks, and allows you to meditate. It’s a time to inspire inspiration and re-awakening. I always think of Robert Frost’s STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING and the last scene in James Joyce’s THE DEAD from his DUBLINERS.
November 20, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Sam I hadn’t thought of this Robert Frost poem for a long time. It is absolutely perfect for today here on Mayne Island. I do not know the James Joyce piece but will look it out. I can’t count the times Sam you have sent me off on a discovery that has been a rich and rewarding experience. Your gems of references are certainly treasured.
November 21, 2010 at 3:42 am
Winter tiptoes in…but soon it shall settle at our hearth. Snow shall build its forest dens, deeper and deeper, until we fashion snowshoes to walk within the magic pristine world which Old Man Winter rules with his Christmas bride.
I loved Kathy’s words thi smorning…..They brought me to my favorite parts of winter…..Dealving inside….by a crackling fire…..
November 21, 2010 at 6:17 am
Kathy does write some amazing words. Her photographs are fantastic as well. Delving inside is good and winter seems to be the perfect season. Do you think you poke another log in there Kim?
November 21, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Oooooo! Beautiful snow! You had a REAL snow, not just a quarter of an inch of dusting. I hesitate to voice this in words, but now I am–almost–wanting to see a snowfall just like yours. So many exquisite images! The contrast of the calendula is amazing. I like the fence and the gate and the prayer flags, too.
This morning I was inspired by a story about folks living on an island. If I write a blog about this sometime this week–not sure yet–you will laugh.
November 22, 2010 at 12:15 am
Oh I am looking forward to your story if you choose to tell Kathy. And thank you. It was fun to catch those first hours of freshness. Now it is just wet melting snow. The magic and dripped away.
November 22, 2010 at 2:35 am
Oh we had our first snow today, my partner put up the Christmas lights so that he could turn them on when our prodigal daughter arrives home on Wed. pm near midnight…I have never been first on the block with the lights – feels nice in the snow! Not very much accumulation here.
The lovely calendar arrived in the Deep Dark Interior (Missouri) on Friday and it was “love” at first sight….Thank you – it was a perfect match up.
Happy snow…and exciting news about the paintings. May it go well.
November 22, 2010 at 7:15 am
Oh I am so glad Patricia that the calendar arrived and was a hit. Always good to hear about a satisfied receiver of a gift. Thank you again for your purchase.
I have a few more snow photographs to share tomorrow… it won’t be until later in the day though because I took today completely off and will need a bit of time to pull the post together in the morning.
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