Sunshine, blue skies, whispy clouds

Blue skies and sunshine

Lift my spirits

and delight my heart

and send me scurrying

for dustmop and broom

Beautiful day.  I am banishing dust, but as I work my eye is drawn

to shadows on the snow, whispy white clouds

and water dripping from the evergreens

as those great drifts of snow disappear.

As I tidy and dust I also listen to a new David Garrett CD

"Timeless" - the music of Brahms and Bruch

played with the Israel Philharmonic and conducted by

Zubin Mehta !!!!

Beside my chair lies the latest Alan Bradley novel

following the adventures of Flavia de Luce .

When Alan Bradley first started this series he lived just miles away,

in Kelowna, B.C.  It tells the tales

of eleven year old Flavia's detective skills as she lives

with a most eccentric family residing at Buckshaw, the old and fast

deteriorating family estate.

Well, I find it charming and I can hardly wait to open the book,

forsaking Wallace Stegner and Loren Eisely for a romp

through a thoroughly relaxing read.

These delights, along with a desk diary that provides an awesome fact

for each day of the year

are the result of a lovely Amazon Gift Certificate birthday present

and I have to say, my son-in-law Frank's kindness

in going to get my mail on the icy roads.

Here are a few more pictures of a nice winter's day in the Similkameen!

If you look closely you can see that the pussy willows are starting to swell,

but alas, no small bits of greenery where the bulbs were planted, and the Lenten roses 

are under a foot of snow...

Off to catch the last rays of the sun before it falls behind the mountain.

Have we advanced more than three seconds a day 

as daylight increases, nearing spring?

Surely.......

P..S.    I forgot to mention the name of Alan Bradley's new Book

'As Chimney Sweepers come to Dust'

quote from Shakespeare....