Hello, Rabbit - Missoula, Montana

"Hello Rabbit, is that you?"

"Let's pretend it isn't", said Rabbit, "and see what happens."

- A. A. Milne, from Winnie-The-Pooh, Ch. 10


(At least I think these are rabbit tracks - of a very fluffy bunny. Think Thumper. Or Mopsy.

By the way, the real House at Pooh Corner - Cotchford Farm, where A.A. Milne wrote his classic anthropomorphic tales of Pooh and friends -  is up for sale; read more here.)

Eeyore's House - Greenough Park, Missoula, Montana

"Well, we keep looking for Home and not finding it, so I thought that if we looked for this pit, we’d be sure not to find it, which would be a good thing, because then we might find something that we weren’t looking for, which might be just what we were looking for, really."

- from Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

Winter's Quiet Shadows - Missoula, Montana

"The light in winter is most varied; 
there are days when it's clear and bright, 
carving the earth into light and shadow like a razor. 
Yet, at times, the light can be soft and quiet 
as a whisper, with color of the most intense 
chromatic variations anyone could ever need." 

- Peter Fiore

Winter Quiet Things 2 - Missoula, Montana

"God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour."

 - Charles Stanley

Wintry Quiet Things 1 - Missoula, Montana

"...We are quiet now

The deeds we’ve rendered to this day

Are like small seeds in the ground

Eventually they’ll have their say..."

- from Quiet by Janet Martin

Stop by Another Porch...A Poetry Blog for more lovely verse - perfect with your daily cuppa!

Gummy Yummy - Missoula, Montana (by way of Korea)

Delightful colleague S. gifted to me this yummy Skinfood Gummy Bear Dark  Chocolate Hand Butter - with ingredients in Korean to prevent me from thinking about it too much to just enjoy the gift.

But I do, enjoy the gift, I mean. It's not only adorable but also smells sooo good!  

I'm thinking of taking up sucking my thumb again.

Grey Transformed - Rattlesnake Creek, Missoula, Montana

"But soon, he knew. It would come soon enough. And the gray November would be transformed into a bright sparkling wonderland of skiing and skating. Of snowball fights, and snow forts and snowmen, and angels made in snow that had fallen from the heavens."

- from A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny, page 2

Cycling Luck - Missoula, Montana

"I thought of Virgil's words: Luck most often is accompanied with knowing what you are doing."

- from Iron Horse, Ch. 29, by Robert Knott