🍾✨ HAPPY NEW YEAR! ✨🍾
May this New Year lay an abundance of love, light and blessings upon your door. x
{New Year’s Eve Celebration | 1957 | Stan Wayman | Pinned HERE}Â
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Hello, August. We’re ready to stretch out under ceiling fans while we read our books. We’re ready to watch old episodes of “Bewitched” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” while we eat PB&J sandwiches on fresh bread with salty potato chips for summertime lunches.
We’re ready to eat our weight in popcorn watching summer classics projected onto our big screen. We’re ready to spend all day at the beach and come home to hot dogs and fresh steamed ears of corn dripping with butter.
We’re ready for early morning walks and hot coffee on the beach. We’re ready for homemade strawberry shortcakes for lunch when the strawberries are still warm from the sun and they sit nestled on a pillow of whipped cream.
We’re ready for the lazy, hazy, days of summer to blend into one another, where nothing and everything happens.
Welcome, August! We’re ready for all the summer magic that you hold.
{Toy Sailboat Collection FOUND | Pinned HERE}
May this New Year lay an abundance of love, light and blessings upon your door. x
{October 1950: American model Joan Vohs poses for a new year greetings card. | Photo by Keystone/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}
Even with the rain and the nip of the wind, there is a hum of magic in the air today.
Happy Solstice. ✨
{Winter | Alphonse Mucha | 1896}
❄️ Happy Winter Solstice! ❄️
We were greeted by the sunrise over the water this morning and the sun has stayed out as the day has progressed, which has been a first for us in a little while. The air is crisp and clean. Our walk was full of woodland creatures and there is a magic in the air.
Happy Yule!
{Interior illustration from The Shortest Day, by Susan Cooper, illustration by Carson Ellis // Image taken from an article on the NPR HERE // Carson Ellis website HERE}
Happy Santa Lucia Day!
May you be a light in the darkness for others.
{“Santa Lucia” by Charlot Byj}
Hello, November! We’re ready for the full shift to autumn that you will bring, early nights and darker mornings. We’re ready for leaves crunching underfoot and the smell of woodsmoke in the air and crispy apples packed as snacks.
We’re ready to feast by the glow of candlelight and sip hot apple ciders and munch on gingersnaps for our evening dessert. We’re ready for the promise of Thanksgiving that comes near the end of your monthly reign this year. And the smells of turkey and gravy and baked sweet potato pie that will fill the air.
We’re ready to move into “sweater weather” and take rambling walks with our wellies on, through the muddy fields and up to the hills to look out over the water. We’re ready for twinkle lights to glitter from every nook and cranny and we’re ready for the stillness that you bring with late autumn evenings where all the world is quiet except for the whistling of the wind.
Welcome November!
{The Mushroom Gatherers, by Abigail Halpin // Pinned HERE}
Hello, October! You’ve arrived so swiftly on the wind that I’m not entirely sure what has happened to September? It has passed in a haze. But, we’re happy that you’re here with all the heady scent of autumn and magic that you bring.
We’re ready for a chance to be still for just a little bit as that was not an opportunity we were given last month. We’re ready for the evenings to draw themselves in sooner. We’re ready to make our first batch of butternut squash soup for the season, with crusty bread to dip into it and a plate of sliced apples and cheese to go alongside.
We’re ready for crisp clear autumn days to hike in the nature reserve with a sprinkling of rainy Sundays thrown in so we can curl up and read books with a cup of tea close at hand. We’re ready for our front porch to be decorated with pumpkins and mums to bring a smattering of colour to grey days.
We’re ready for our annual household festivities to begin in the lead up to Halloween, with decorating and witches’ hats and bowls of candy scattered around. We’re ready to feast on marshmallow popcorn balls while watching some of our favourite old Halloween movies.
We’re ready for all that you bring and the enchantment that you hold, for you are truly the month that walks us into autumn and all of her glory.
{Laurel Goodwin modeling for E.J. Brach & Sons, 1966 Halloween Ad HERE // Pinned HERE}
Hello, September! August moved too quickly for me even though we savoured each and every moment. I could spool that thread out a little longer before it is woven into the tapestry of this year. And now, suddenly we’ve ushered in September! We await to see what she brings as the air has been cooler the past two weeks. So, we’ll see if she will carry that on, or give us a delicious Indian Summer, where we can bathe in the last warmth of summer just a touch longer.Â
We welcomed September this morning, or I should say, she welcomed us, by gifting us with an enchanting walk to school. We saw three dolphins in the water, swimming at a steady pace and sometimes diving down to fish. My heart was beyond filled with JOY! Our morning was entirely sprinkled with magic.
We’re not quite ready to go back to school, but we are ready for cooler mornings where the light takes a little longer to arrive. We’re ready for crispy apples dipped in caramel as an afternoon snack and popcorn and hot cider next to us while we watch an evening movie.Â
We’re ready to gather the the last of the blackberries coming in on the vines and eating our weight in all manner of fruit pies dolloped with a scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream. And we’re ready to savour the last of the yellow squash and heirloom tomatoes before they disappear till next summer’s bounty arrives.
We’re ready for hikes in the nature reserve when the leaves are starting to turn and stopping to feast on cheese and chutney sandwiches on the rocks overlooking the water.Â
We’re still holding on to those last remnants of summer, but September, we’re ready to see what you hold for us.
{Selkie by Lore Pemberton // Pinned HERE}