The First of December

The Spirit of Christmas is tranquil and gentle

Photo from All The Beautiful Christmas

Christmas is Coming

Mistä on joulu tehty:

Aamulla sataneesta puuterilumesta

Kauniista koristeista, väreistä ja tuoksuista

Pakkasesta, rakkaudesta, tonttulakkien punasta

Kauniista maisemista ja kuumasta kaakaosta

Kynttilöiden valosta ja ihanista herkuista

Tuuli

Sisimmässään
jokainen on tuuli,
henkäys
Avaa kämmenesi tuuleen,
hyväile tuulta
aamunkoitosta uniesi läpi
Jos joku kysyy
miksi olet olemassa, tässä,
vastaa tuuli, henkäys ja kädet
Tuulen jokainen jättää
jälkeensä, henkäyksen
ja joskus illan viiletessä
se osuu
joihinkin käsiin

Tommy Tabermann

A Swirl of Mist

                                         Extend my hand, and turn my wrist

                                              I fold you into my embrace  

                                             within a swirl of moonlit mist.

Flowing as your dress of lace,
we step and turn, a graceful dance;
I fold you into my embrace.

Your fragrance has me in a trance;
among the ancient standing stones,
we step and turn, a graceful dance.

Your charm has overturned the thrones
of gods, yet here you are tonight,
among the ancient standing stones.

Kuvat Cabbage and Roses- sivuilta ja runo by Brian Bale

Sweet Beach Proposol

 Löysin jotain sydäntäsulattavaa. Tälläinen kosinta on jokaisen tytön unelma :)

"I thought about saving this post for Valentine’s Day which is exactly a month away, but this is just too beautiful to wait. This proposal set up on the beach by the groom will put Anthropologie to shame! Tyler Branch captured their proposal, then their engagement session a few weeks later. Daniel, the groom, left a trail of notes directing Katie to different locations which ended at this beautiful scene on the beach where he asked her to marry him. This sequence of images is so sweet it gives a warm fuzzy feeling. "
 http://ruffledblog.com/2010/01/anthropologie-beach-proposal/

Rakkaudesta kirjoihin

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."  ~Charles W. Eliot

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."  ~Mark Twain, attributed

"Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own."  ~William Hazlitt

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."  ~Paul Sweeney

"A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul."  ~Franz Kafka
 
"Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.  Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book."  ~Christopher Morley

Quotation from http://www.quotegarden.com/books.html

This Country Life

Lisää syksyistä tunnelmaa Amerikkalaiseen tapaan Vermontista ja Wisconsonista :)

 Kuvat Country Living sivuilta

Fall Entertaining

Kuvat Pottery Barnin sivuilta