A Look at the Holidays-Celebrating the Sheer Wonder of Winter

Time stops. We are not sure what day it is or what time it is because everything stops. We wrap the Solstice around us and give each other the gift of watching the sunrise or sunset each night.

The views are breathtaking, only a quick walk to the harbor to see the sky celebrate these last quiet days of 2024.

The added dividend is that it is snowing off and on, creating the frosting on the stage set that is our home.

It is a time of Basel Metabolism, long naps, long walks, long reads...

High Tea at the most lovely inn

Here is the holiday winner. I will have to read it again because I swallowed it whole. The pinnacle take away, you ask? At the peak of the Age of Enlightenment, slavery, throughout England and West Europe and America, was rampant. There is the teaser. Give it a read. If you are a listener, the great Juliet Stevenson is the reader, a Christmas gift.

We visited our godchildren in Hebron, Maine.

We heard a beautiful concert in at Ellsworth High School. It was a packed house. The choir was sublime. The fourth person from the left, on the top is a dear friend from Vienna days.

…the long suffering driver, over hills and dales, pausing for a little dip into Irish poetry...

The Knox House done up for holiday and a special guest visit from North Carolina, Paul Bumbalough, a long time Vienna friend. The book case in the right corner belong to Marie Antoinette. I adore it. There is a wonderful story that accompanies it...I'll save it for you.

When Dave wasn't reading, he reinvented the dining room chairs in a shade of cinnabar. We should have done this years ago.

A pub lunch with Bill...

The last touches on the house as we celebrate the Winter Solstice, when magical things happen.

A glorious winter sunrise-cold, crisp, incomparable Atlantic coastline

For us, holiday began at Thanksgiving and stretch as long as we can keep into mid-January. By then, the light will change, the days will become longer and this interior light can go to sleep for another year.

Grazing with pals and raising a Champagne 95 to all life's advantages...

Buckle up, Buttercups, for 2025...All wishes for good health and creating more adventures with our loved ones.