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.
Dunc keeping warm on a cold, cold night.

Dunc, being adorable.
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

Backyard Tree in Snow
Snow always looks better when captured in black and white.
Isn’t she the cutest?

Enjoying a cuppa in my new Hello Dalí mug. Thanks, Mom!
“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”-Salvador Dalí
Christmas Sunrise

Christmas Morning
I’ve decided to shelve all serious writing for the rest of the year. There is so much life stuff to do: baking, wrapping gifts, cooking, drinking mulled wine, watching holiday movies, and spending time with family and friends. Oh, and organizing my writing schedule and goals for 2014. Fear not! I’ll still be hanging around Ye Olde WordPress, posting easy and feather-light things. Like this:

Ghost Tree
I’m feeling frosty! Can you tell?

Émile Zola by Édouard Manet, 1868

Émile Zola, 1902
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”-Émile Zola
Her name is Koonu, but you may call her Chuck.

Koonu (Chuck)
“In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.”-Michel de Montaigne