Real life snow looks nothing like pristine painting snow…at least not when you live in my neighborhood.

Snow is not an instant glamorizer.
Real life snow looks nothing like pristine painting snow…at least not when you live in my neighborhood.

Snow is not an instant glamorizer.
“I am sorry for stealing your fancy cupcakes, Momma. I promise I won’t do it again!”

Cupcake Thief
Dunc keeping warm on a cold, cold night.

Dunc, being adorable.

A Winter Sunset’s Dying Light
Happy birthday to my lifelong favourite actor, Paul Newman! He would have been eighty-nine today.

Paul Newman in 1954.
“If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.”-Paul Newman
What is your number one Paul Newman flick?

Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson Greeting Card by Amanda White. $3.90.

Russell Square Photograph by Journey’s Eye Photography. $28.00.

Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson at The Glamourist. $25.29.

Virginia Woolf Print by Lucy Loves This. $25.29.
Different editions of old favourites and new-to-me volumes…

Books for the New Year
Happy Reading in 2014!
The Bell Jar was published on 14 January 1963, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas.

The Bell Jar
“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.”-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
All the cool kids were doing it yesterday…

All the cool kids were doing it yesterday…

Boiling water thrown into frigid air=this!

It was so much fun, we ultimately did it three times!
This is what happens when two bored adults are housebound during a vicious cold spell.
“Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.”-Sinclair Lewis

Backyard Tree in Snow
Snow always looks better when captured in black and white.