DC in the Spring

Jefferson Memorial through the Cherry Blossoms, Tidal Basin

The Crowd Gathers, 7 a.m.

Zen Like

Fairy Wood

Tidal Basin, Round the Bend

Because after Monday in Boston, I could use some pretty, some happy.

I took these photos one week earlier, on a business trip to Washington.

XO Terez

This Evening's Sunset

The View From Apt 6

The enjoyment of this evening's sunset was heightened by:

:A double long chat with Mamacat (with a surprise chime in from HH)

:A spritzer

:A good mini-run

:The last of the bolognese

:A satisfyingly successful day at the office

:A brainstorm about a new hanging that will be sewn, soon

:Savoring last piece of chocolate sent via UPS from the Universe

:Anticipation for things to come

:Thankfulness for the way things are in this very moment

XO TEREZ

Saturday Stroll

Starling Sitting

Lunch Buddies

Canadian Invasion Formation

Too Shy for the Camera

After finishing some Christmas errands I decided to walk from Park Street to Hynes through the Common and Public Garden. I was treated to a show of starlings gobbling up red berries and Canadian Geese participating in a glamorous synchronized swimming performance. The ice skaters cutting away at the Frog Pond looked a little out of place with the green grass and balmy temps. Will we have another record snowfall this year? {I hope not!}

XO Terez

Walk to Work Wednesday

John, Andrew, Paul and Matthew

Sneaky Sunlight

The Breakfast Club

Beacon Street Water Works

Mini Mums

How did it get to be November already? Autumn this year has been less than spectacular--the leaves are stubborn and refuse to change or fall from the trees. We've already had a snow storm--and still many people are without power. As for the temperature change, I don't mind...too much. I sometimes wish the summer away--the heat and humidity are worse in my mind than the bone chilling temperatures we're expecting in a few weeks. Fall and winter means Mamcat's-Not-So-Secret-Anymore-Hot-Cider Recipe, pot roast, Jane Austen, knitting, purling, quilting, Baileys & Cocoa, snowy Sunday dinners with friends, the Nutcracker, down comforters, holiday handmade gift making and purchasing (and sometimes keeping!). By February I'll be through but for now I'm settling in with a mug of tea and already enjoying the incumbent holiday season. And finally...finally...my fingers are itching to create some new baubles.
XO Terez 

Hoctober

Porch Pumpkin Planter

Summer Sneaks In

Saturate-Sun

From the Heart and Hands

If you stumbled upon this post you might think it was mid summer with the blooms and saturated color...but it's the second week in October. Somehow we got lucky and after a brief cool spell last week Columbus Day Weekend has been sunny, clear and in the 80s, all three days. Unbelievable. We're all enjoying it, but can't help but wonder if this is Mother Nature's way of saying she's going to wallop us this winter. 

XO Terez

Cape-arium

Cape-arium

For the past few years I've been fascinated by the terrariums I've seen on Etsy and featured in the New York Times, but I haven't taken the time to try my hand at miniature enclosed gardening until inspiration struck this weekend.

I was staring at one of my glass globes from China Fair in Newton, and loving the way a collection of Cape beach rocks looked nestled in the curved base. I didn't want to use it as a traditional vase with flower stems and water mucking things up...and then I remembered I had a teeny tiny spider plant {also attained from friends on Cape Cod!} sprouting roots in a dish of water and a teeny tiny terracotta pot...and after some maneuvering and planting the plant with dirt pilfered from another potted plant via tea spoon...voila!

One important thing I have learned in just a few days--the terrarium stays really, really humid, and a little water goes a long way. 

XO Terez

Winter Blooms to the Rescue

Extreme Close-Up

Yes, yes, I should know better. When the New England mercury hit 60 degrees on Friday, I was ready to swap my wool for cotton and ditch the puffy Tootsie-Roll Coat.

Not so fast, my friends. Mother Nature is such a tease sometimes. The 60 degrees did us good: it melted snow piles that were shoulder-high to hip- or knee-high, and I finally, truly, stopped worring about my roof caving in. But in someways it was a cruel break before today's face-numbing-in-the-teens-wind-chill lows.

At least the sun has been making scattered appearances, hurrah! Yesterday's rays gave me the chance to experiment with my new camera and the Extreme Focus mode (as evidenced above by the teeny, tiny flower blown up to mega proportions) with the plant HH and I picked up last week:

Actual Size

Nothing like a pretty pink flower in a pretty pink pot to perk up the dog days of winter.

XOXO Terez

Walk to Work Thursday: Blizzard Mega Edition II

Open For Business

Transportation

Icy Wires

Here Comes the Sun

Frosted

Loveseat

Closing Time

Snow Hill

Brrrr it was slippery and treacherous walking to work today--but gorgeous watching the sun play off of the snow and ice. The last photo is the pile of snow in our parking lot at work--literally 10 feet high.

Stay safe! Stay warm!

XO Terez

Walk to Work Wednesday: Blizzard Mega Edition

Hooky?

Mamacat's Hot Cider

We Deliver for You

Cold Heart

 

 

 

Winter Grafitti

After School Snack

"Doesn't it look like a wonderland?"--Snow Shovel Man

Snow Feathers

Alternate Means of Transportation

Hi to the Little Guys Back Home from Aunt Sissy

Winter Bloom

Winter Bloom

Well, it's cold outside, and we're under Winter Storm Watch 2011 {10-14 more inches Tuesday night!}, but I will say this: today it was clear, crisp and sunny. I'm so happy my poinsettias are hanging in there. Wishful thinking but I hope they can see me through to daffodil season, which is in May in Boston, by the way ;).

XO TEREZ

Walk to Work Wednesday

Swirl and Slash

Someone to Watch Over Me

Winter Fire

There is a Light that Never Goes Out

Red Spark

Walk to work Wednesday

Aries

Last of the Fall Color

Lion's Den

Wooden Twist

Beacon Street Rows