Contagious Happiness - Missoula, Montana

An anonymous little happiness faerie has been leaving these tiny Happy Day cards on my desk.
They're just over 2" square (just under 6 cm for most of the measuring world), but certainly deliver a full-size dose of happy!
I gotta say, the "open here" aspect is like extra candy helpings for someone who loved - well, okay, still loves! - childhood pop-up books. 
And this week's behind-the-flap sentiment is too perfectly apt to keep to myself. (Almost as if the wee faerie knows me...!) 
So, savour a while with me the shared happiness and this lovely quote from Paulo Coelho.

Christmas Cheer - Corvallis, Montana

So, the local nieces got delightfully (& frightfully, perhaps?! beware the clown...) creative at their annual Christmas cookie baking extravaganza. 
It appears that the nice guy gets cut in on even in cookie-dom lines. 
But I guess finishing last equates to a longer lifespan for gingerbread men...

Winter: Day One - Missoula, Montana

Today marks the official first day of winter - well, depending who you talk to, according to this article from National Geographic. 

Here's hoping for just a little bit more fluffy snow to ensure a white Christmas in Montana!

Slim Pickings - Grant Creek, Missoula, Montana

"A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have
a camel for lunch today.”  
And all morning he went about looking
for camels.  
But at noon he saw his shadow again—and he said, “A
mouse will do.”

-From The Fox by Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

Something Else Than Ice - Rattlesnake Creek, Missoula, Montana

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, ‘What else could this mean?’”

- Shannon L. Alder

Delicious Autumn! - Greenough Park, Missoula, Montana

Seeing as it's technically not yet winter...

"Delicious autumn! 

My very soul is wedded to it, 

and if I were a bird 

I would fly about the earth 

seeking the successive autumns."

-George Eliot (1819-1880)

Winter Poetry - Missoula, Montana

“Poetry heals 

the wounds inflicted 

by reason.”

-Novalis
 (aka Baron Georg Philipp Friedrich vonHardenberg 1772-1802)