frosty start

november is a frosty month...

(image above enhanced with Kim Klassen's 'touch of 1' texture,

along with Pixel Dust's golden bokeh and FABrique textures)

 

 

 

until the sun comes out and melts the frost...

 

sharing with "Texture Tuesday"



a november slow-down...

November has always been a crazy busy month.

lots of family birthdays, thanksgiving get-togethers, and 80 hr work weeks at peak season...

it was intense and made a man out of me :)

 

this year was different.

i wished for 'different' in a big way...

and i got it.

 



it was a lay-low kind of time.

as the world transitioned from the end of autumn

to the beginning of winter,

i transitioned too...

 

i took rides,

cooked stuff to eat (barely edible but hey...)

nested, read, sat, walked. 

i retired.

 

then it snowed.

i was going to eat soup (from a can) and light a fire.

but instead, i ran to the beach because i could.

and it was softly beautiful.

 

the snow revealed the shapes and concealed the shit :)

i need more snow in my life

 

 

 

and so it went...

i am wandering through the month of my slow-down

with an openness to whatever may come.

some moments are harder than others to let go of the controls

but i hope to move forward loosely...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so here's to November

and here's to transitions...

 

a time to grow and expand

to embrace and release

go forward and retreat

to wander and ponder

 and always, god willing

to dance in the moonlight

 

 

images were enhanced using elements and snapseed,

pioneer woman's actions,

and textures from kim klassen, french kiss and jessica drossin...



hellooo november :)

today is my mom's birthday, she would have been 84 yrs old.

she died of lung cancer 11/13/08 and I miss her terribly every day.

when she died, my sisters and I divided up her plants.

I have one of her Christmas cactus plants.

and in honor of my mom's birthday, it has this beautiful flower today

:)

 

this is also the first November since 1979 that I am not overloaded with retail stress.

I am going to see this month and all it's beauty :)

I am going to see the gray stuff,

the temperature drop, the election signs,

the wilting pumpkins,

the rusty dried leaves

and smile...

hellooo November, I hope to enjoy the hell out of you this go round 

:)

one more image to add -

I bought an annual for the front step this spring, and it barely made it through the season.

I brought it inside a couple of weeks ago and it now has a few buds!

it feels like an omen, a message of new life...

:)

so hellooo November :)