Buds in the Chill

Willows waiting for warmth.

Winter Walking Companion (He Cries When I Get Too Far Ahead)

Oliver doesn’t love the snow.

But he puts up with it to come on goat walks.

He stretches.

He investigates.

Basically just looks cute.

Ethereal Trees

 

Autumn Gone

What To Do In January

Ingredients for deliciousness.

King Arthur Recipe for Blueberry Muffins

• 2 1/4 cups  whole wheat flour
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 cup blueberries, fresh or frozen
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk or plain (not Greek) yogurt; or 1 1/4 cups liquid whey*
• cinnamon-sugar for topping, optional

Preheat oven 400

Grease muffin pan (12 muffins), whisk the dry ingredients together with berries, stir in wet ingredients, scoop into pan, throw into oven and wait 18 minutes or so.

Make a double batch.

Just be sure not to leave your dog alone in the kitchen. Nala, be good.

 

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is…. No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel. ~John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866

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 Elliot