But with the arrival of the new year came the arrival of real winter time. It's been snowing, and bitter cold, just like you'd expect from winter. Brrrrr! Sometimes I think that I'll never feel warm again.
I'm ready to finally settle into my winter cocoon. Honestly, I'm looking forward to things turning a little bit dull. You see, we just held our annual wine party last night, and I'm exhausted! Don't get me wrong, it was a blast, but now I can call my time my own. We normally hold it between Christmas and New Year's, but this year we moved it off the holiday just a bit and that turned out to be a good move. However, it means that I still haven't been able to wind down from the "holidays". I promise, today I did nothing! And it felt wonderful.
In trying to inspire myself to write about gardening, I scanned through last year's pictures for ideas. Instead, I got a little lost there in my photo files. Heavy sigh. Sometimes I can put it out my mind for awhile, but seeing all those flowers reminded me just exactly what I'm missing.
I guess that just means that one of my first winter projects will be sorting through the seed catalogs. Oh darn.
I'm actually ahead of the game with next year's seeds. I already bought some of my favorites so that they wouldn't sell out before I got to them. After all, I couldn't do without my beloved Queen Red Lime zinnias. I wonder what other treasures I'll find.
There are a couple of other winter projects to keep me occupied, and they are actually related to gardening. That's how I keep my sanity till the garden starts blooming again. I need to gather vegetable recipes for the Master Gardener farmer's market, and I need to tweak my butterfly gardening presentation before I present it to the garden club next month. Of course there are plenty of other non-garden related craft projects too. Before I know it, the first iris reticulata will pop up, and the next garden season will begin again. I can make it.
We can make it, Robin. We have freezing rain here, today, but I am enjoying the down time. And really enjoyed the photos you shared in this post! P. x
ReplyDeleteI am really loving all the beautiful flowers you posted this morning. Getting my color fix. LOL! I really like your wine bottle display amongst the flowers. So pretty Robin.
ReplyDeleteHello Robin girl !
ReplyDeleteWe are in an extreme cold alert here right now ... -23 but the calculation is "feels like" -30 .. so it is COLD but clear.
Thankfully it isn't going to last long.
I really like you individual bottle stands ... I didn't quite go for the trees .. but the individual shot of colour like that is really pretty !
Your garden always looks wonderful ... I think I need to post 2014 pictures too ... anything to get over the winter months right now ... they are stretching way ahead of me ... Spring is very far away !
Joy
Hey, I missed you! You can blog about other stuff besides gardening! I would've loved to hear about your holidays and your wine party, though I did see some of your pics on FB. It's nice to finally do nothing for a change, isn't it? I actually kind of like January (except for the cold, lol) because it's such a low-key month. I've been in a decluttering and organizing mood, but at least I can do it at my own pace and there's no rush involved.
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