GIVEAWAY winner and snow pics

 first things first.
there were five comments and one e-mail
expressing an interest in the giveaway.

i wrote your names on slips of paper,
tossed them in the air
and wilma selected

 vicki of cricketandfrog.

vicki, i've got your address and 

will pop it in the mail tomorrow.

so glad it's headed to australia!

i'm organizing another giveaway and will post it this weekend,

so please, friends, try again!

(your comments were so very thoughtful. 

you, dearest readers, are just lovely people).

 the snow fell for days and days.

we did not lose power!

hooray!

 there will be no picnicking any time soon.

 the snow was too fine and powdery for snowshoeing,

so i did some high stepping hiking instead.

 (our annual snowshoeing weekend with friends and family 

driving up from the boston area was cancelled, due to the forecast). 

these two spent much of the time in front of the stove,

curled up together.

corazón and wilma.

xo

are you feeling the weight and din and weariness
of the news cycle?

come on back tomorrow.

i'll share some of the things that are

helping to keep me sane these days.