Spring just might be in the air ...

This is the view of town from the top of our "mountaian". Town is 7 minutes drive but far enough away that we are totally rural. Big enough to have choices in gas stations, grocery stores, have a liquior store AND a beer store but small enough to be a little town at the same time. Postcard pretty at this time of year too!

dreaming on a winter's day ...

The view from what, one day, might be our kitchen. A whole lot of nothing. Soul replenishing. Beautiful. Even if it never happens fun to contemplate. We realized we will likely have a pond view from the house too - at least in all but the thickest of summer.

The inside of a renovation for a kitchen. Amazing to see the space gutted and ready to be rebuilt. Exciting.

All this promise and we aren't even officially in spring yet!!

i am done with apologies

"I am done with apologies. If contrariness is my inheritance and destiny, so be it. If it is my mission to go in at exits and come out at entrances, so be it. I have planted by the stars in defiance of the experts, and tilled somewhat by incantation and by singing, and reaped, as I knew, by luck and Heaven's favor,in spite of the best advice. If I have been caught so often laughing at funerals, that was because I knew the dead were already slipping away, preparing a comeback, and can I help it? And if at weddings I have gritted and gnashed my teeth, it was because I knew where the bridegroom had sunk his manhood, and knew it would not be resurrected by a piece of cake. ‘Dance,’ they told me, and I stood still, and while they stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced. ‘Pray,’ they said, and I laughed, covering myself in the earth's brightnesses, and then stole off gray into the midst of a revel, and prayed like an orphan. When they said, ‘I know my Redeemer liveth,’I told them, ‘He's dead.’ And when they told me‘God is dead,’ I answered, ‘He goes fishing ever day in the Kentucky River. I see Him often.’ When they asked me would I like to contribute I said no, and when they had collected more than they needed, I gave them as much as I had. When they asked me to join them I wouldn't, and then went off by myself and did more than they would have asked. ‘Well, then,’ they said ‘go and organize the International Brotherhood of Contraries,’ and I said, ‘Did you finish killing everybody who was against peace?’ So be it. Going against men, I have heard at times a deep harmony thrumming in the mixture, and when they ask me what I say I don't know. It is not the only or the easiest way to come to the truth. It is one way."

from Wendell Berry

fabulous eh?