February Light . . .

 

In February one notices all of a sudden that the days are drawing out . . . slowly lengthening.  It's been going on for a while, a minute here . . . a minute there, since the 21st of December . . . but now it is becoming much more noticeable . . .  I like the lengthening days.

There are moments in February twilight when the colour of the dusk deepens to a blue haze . . . and you are struck with an awareness of beauty that is half ecstasy and half sorrow . . . caught between two worlds. 

  

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There is a strange loveliness in a February twilight.  Familiar places soften into a fading mist of gauzy proportions . . . looking somehow less real . . . magical even.   It lasts but for a moment, not much more than minutes really . . . and before you know it that blue light has thinned out to grey and it is gone . . . the magic has evaporated and it is simply becoming night time.

I wait for that special light to appear each day so that I can hold it in my hands for the few moments that it is there.   It never appears in January or March . . . or any other month of the year . . . only in February.   In February it delights my soul and feeds my heart . . . this magic of nature . . . and I am grateful for eyes and a mind which are able to capture it.  

 

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They say we are to get some very unsettled and stormy weather this week coming up, perhaps even more snow.  This is the time of year when snow begins to lose much of it's novelty I think!   Like a guest who has outworn it's welcome we are eager to see it's backside . . .  We don't get much snow here really . . . so we mustn't complain.

It doesn't even really get all that cold . . . not much colder than -2 or -3 or -4 . . . and yet for some reason it always feels colder to me.   I have been here for 18 winters now and I can no longer imagine temperatures like -27 or -30 . . . but then again I think cold is relative.   If you are cold, you are cold, no matter how low the thermometer drops, it all feels the same. 

  

 

We're not going to church this morning.  Todd has been battling a scratchy sore throat for several days now and seems to have come down with a bad cold.  He's had a very rough night.  He just texted me from upstairs to say he is staying in bed.  Can't complain. He never gets sick, so if he feels rough like that I know he feels really rough. Poor baby.  He is not one to complain much about anything.  I will do my best to pamper him all day today.  In all honesty, after having had a couple of really good night's sleep, I didn't sleep too well last night  myself.  It seems I was awake every hour on the hour, but that could be because Todd was up and down all night and every time he passed my side of the bed he accidentally knocked my feet or summat. 

 

We have been re-watching Downton Abbey.  We just started watching Season Four last night, after the tragic happening at the end of the special where they went up to the Scottish Highlands for a fortnight and Mary went home and gave birth to George.  I was so sad (even though I knew it was going to happen) when Matthew was killed.  Even now, the second time around, I cried.  Yes I am an old softie.  I always had hoped that Mary and Branson would get together after that, but alas . . .  they did not. 

And with that I will leave you with a thought for the day   . . . 

 

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 *.˛.  Start this day with a song.  

Cast your burdens to the wind.  

Dance in the new day's sun.  

Rejoice, for this day is a new beginning.  

It asks of you only that it be embraced 

and lived joyfully. ~Mrs M    •。★★ 。* 。 

Spiritual Enlightenment  

 

In The English Kitchen today  . . .  Queen of Hearts Jam Tarts . . .  for my sweetie pie.  

 

This is the heart shape I used to cut them out from my old set of Tupperware nesting cookie cutters. Yes, I still have them! (and I use them all the time!)

Have a safe and blessed Sabbath day.  Don't forget along the way!

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And I do too!