Thursday, December 29, 2022

Happy Holidays... Merry Messmas

Changing country and therefore culture and customs means that even familiar traditions take on a different quality, with emphasis attached to other elements and aspects - Christmas festivities being a case in point... Y

Sunday, December 18, 2022

Bleak Mid Winter...

Winter cold is biting now and all the branches, twigs and remaining leaves are glistening with frost, as if dipped in crystals...
The conditions reminded me of the 1872 hymn written by Christina Rossetti; In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago......