St. Lucia - a day late!

We skipped on the saffron buns (Lucy cakes) but had white fish, boiled potatoes and baby peas for dinner. That was Swedish enough - right? : )

Pine Cone Santa - a memory of Tinsley

Certain trinkets of Christmas bring back memories of dear friends who departed way before their time. My best friend Tinsley gave me this Santa (which was crafter dby her dear friend Maria) the year of Tinsley's last Christmas. I miss you every day, my friend.

Just a little bit - like Christmas

Bit by bit the tinsel and balls are coming out -

 St. Lucia is almost here - hooray for meatballs and saffron buns

 An Into Vintage stocking creation by Amy - love that vintage linen.

Three cheers for prims for me and Apothic for the guests.

Christmas gatherings 2011

A post holiday gathering - lasagna

 Humble...

yet holiday happy!

Comfort Crow Canine/Feline Population

Buster

Cheers

Lucy

Ta Ta - Mouse - Bunny

Bear

The Legend of Stormy Hallow - really? - snow BEFORE Halloween?

Highlighting assorted Boo Blizzard pictures sent to me from friends frenzied to find so much snow on October 29! (Click on pics to enlarge)

The little snow ghost doesn't find this boo-tiful at all!

Not feelin' that "first snow of the year thrill" are you, Sweetie?

High tech snow removal...

The headless snowman of stormy hollow

The accessories of summer didn't see this one coming.

Forgotten birthday pictures - a festive event at a neighbor's home

Chocolate on chocolate with whipped cream and raspberries. And a giftie (olive bowl) wrapped  - pink on pink with real posies. Exquisite!

The Haunting of Comfort Clearing for Halloween 2011

Nothing too ghoulish - a few bones and touches of yellow, green, orange and black with a hidden spider or rat welcome Halloween this year.

Some sanding and shellac

Sanding and shellac do the trick - (click on pictures to enlarge)

And - a little history about "shellac":
(click on link below to read)

History of Shellac

Who knew shellac could be so interesting????

An EYREy viewing mood

DH has been polite enough to view six versions of Jane Eyre with me. (with not too many nod off incidents)Two more remain: 1944 and 1934. Since he is a channel 44/TCM type of guy I think he might have a special fondness for them. : )

A Death Angel

There are oak trees in the woods and nearby this haunting mushroom - the Death Angel

The link to Wiki

Death Angel

Bats and a Web

Some creature features at the cabin on 9/12 - click on each pic to enlarge.

Flooding in NE PA

Travel/emergency alert

Gone fishin' (and back)

Toad and J thought the threat of a storm would limit their catch at Bowman's creek - apparently not.

That's a 12" wide cafeteria tray, BTW.

Cuisine for Critters at the cabin

This time the vultures arrived for a visit and snack!

"Honda" Hawk (the red tailed kind)

J's latest cabin critter - named after a motorcycle of course!

la tienda tapas

Love/Enjoy everything from this online shop of Spanish treats.

The link is la tienda link for online shop

Blue Green - CC pottery

Artisan pottery is always an exiting find and Circa Ceramics is a big time favorite. I chose a few mixed pieces in blue green for a calming effect with the last two showing skull motifs. Why the fasination with skulls? When one has suffered with migraines or eye surgery or cervical spine surgery or ACM - one can not avoid focusing on that part of the body.

The dark and dreary flowers

More like dead and dried flowers. After the black eyed Susans had their time in the sun and shared their brilliant yellow with all of us I waited and used their remains for a rather interesting display at the bottom of the steps. Dark and dreary!

When I think of fresh cut flowers

I think of my neighbor Liz who spoils me terrible by randomly stopping by with flowers from her garden to my vase and table!