The drinking gourd

                               Growing in the Garden, August 29, 2014             

                               Baked, not a turkey, in mid-January, 2015                

                                           Vessel, the Drinking Gourd

Winter Cold, Winter Warmth

January 12, 2015; it is milder today with temperatures in the single digit below freezing. Last Wednesday and Thursday there was a cold spell. I remembered thinking, as I stepped into the unheated porch, that the Cold is not the gentle version of its absence of warmth. The Cold is in its active phase of penetrating, clinging and freezing. As I stepped  back into the kitchen, I can feel it on my dressing gown. We like to keep its presence at arm's length with oil and wood.

We put in a new oil tank in November 2014. I like the convenience of its use.

So this is winter and what have we done?

I have taken bulbs from the dark and cool into the warmth for Spring. Humble offerings for 2015.