Take me home...

 ~ by Jaime Ellsworth from the Black Dog series ~ No photo for the finale of my December Views...this is really what's on my mind tonight...animal shelters and all the precious ones that need homes.So I just want to speak about this,  a subject...

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Night riding...

Although not too festive myself this season, the jeep always gets a wreathso there it is...it's tradition.It's a wonderful thing that something so simple can raise the spiritsand one of the best reasons to carry on with traditions in the first place.See who's...

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Poof, and they're gone...

...big wind came & carried them away. ~   December Views   ~ to see this series from the beginning, start here.....

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Some notations for within and without...

keep looking closely, determine - with intent - what is important, let all the rest go into soft focus... and always keep the light on, for you never know who might grace your doorstep ... : : : Warmest greetings of the season to all who visit here! :...

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Wild peace...

The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.I...

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Longer tomorrows...

...they're on their way! Remember this?  One of my favorite episodes of all time... Happy Winter Solstice, my friends! to see my December Views from the beginning, start here.....

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Pulling threads...

...where they may not want to go.But I do!  So we continue. ***** Work from these hands,and these,and these, keep me amazed, grateful and inspired every day. ~  December Views  ~ to see this series from the beginning, start her...

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Eye of the beholder

Her quintessence. ~  December Views  ~ to see this series from the beginning, start here......

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Heaping helping of frivolity...

~  December Views  ~ to see this series from the beginning, it all began here......

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Seven steps from the front door...

...there were some very important conversations happening. ~  December Views  ~ to see this series from the beginning, it all began here......

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Keeping spirits bright...

sometimes you just have to dance like no one is looking... ~  December Views  ~ ...to see this series from the beginning, tis here......

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Reflecting...

~  December Views  ~ ...to see this series from the beginning, tis here......

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Nature's beadwork...

~  December Views  ~ ...

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Let sleeping dogs...

rest. Little dawg had herself a day. I've just joined an irrestible get-together.  The timing could not be more perfect... intrigued?  You can come along, too - it's happening all month long. It's a   q.u.i.e.t.  get together for those...

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The light...oh, the light!

Light is at a premium in December...we all begin starving for it,run out into it whenever it makes an appearance.And because the sun stays so low in the sky, never even reaching the tops of the treesat this latitude,illumination happens - details appear - that...

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Walk a mile?

First question I asked of self, would I offer to walk a mile in someone else's shoes if I knew their shoeswere as uncomfortable as this? Second question of self...why do I even need to ask such a thing? Life...so damn difficult at times.  Hard for every...

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Hunters & gatherers...

While the light continues to wane, so does the harvest from the garden.All that remains has been cooking up mighty fine...my favorite soups, made from everything local.If true confessions be known, these are my personal elixirs of life. The nights are much...

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