Monday, January 16, 2023

Adjusting, promising and flames.

1. The teacher steps around the class adjusting blankets so we are not cold in our practice. 

2. Next door already has a promising daffodil bud.

3. The blue brandy flames on our Christmas pudding. Alec turns the lights on and off several times to wonder at the way they disappear and re-appear.

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Magnolia, pagoda and station.

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