1. Coming into work early when the sunlight is still orange. And catching a spark of that orange light that has somehow bounced into a room with no east-facing windows.
2. Listening to someone talk about their travel plans for the next year.
3. Snow warnings have gone out. The last fall a couple of weeks ago caught everyone off-guard, but this time we'll be ready. Probably. The disaster recovery plan is in place, with a phone chain and all the files we need stored on-line. Everyone's taken work home with them, too.
**Update: woke up to a snow day. An inch or so and more threatened, I reckon.**
Winter is passing, toad in the hole and mulled wine.
1. It is cold (although less chill than it has been) and cloudy (although less grey than it has been) and a robin sings loudly from the top ...
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1. An enormous fat bumble bee at work. She is so bulky that she can knock dead blossoms out of the way as she gets right in to the new jasmi...
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1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the m...
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1. I promised myself I wouldn't moan and grumble about it -- but I do. And as if by magic, a very kind friend produces the required blaz...