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Ten Beautiful Things I Do After The First Snowfall…

13 Monday Dec 2021

Posted by Satin & Sand in 10 Beautiful Things, Photography, Reflections, Ten Beautiful Things, Winter

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10 Beautiful Things, beautiful, Winter, Winter forest, Winter wonderland

Walking in the woods…

“Before you can have a roaring fire, you’ve got to gather a good supply of wood.” Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I love this time of year! At the first snowfall, I start preparing to stay warm and cozy inside my house but also to make the most of the splendorous winter wonderland that awaits me outdoors. Below is my list of what I love to do during my favorite season:

1. Get out all my wool toques, mittens, and scarves, the down jacket, and the snow boots with the big snow cuffs.

2. Put my flannel sheets, down comforter, and wool mattress topper on my bed,

3. Walk through the woods and try to spot a hare or Snowy owl. Listen for the bird calls of a Blue Jay, Cardinal or Bohemian waxwing.

4. At sunset, as the temperature is dropping the fastest and the wind has fallen, listen to the rare crinkling sound of the ice crystals forming on a pond or gentle stream.

5. Before dinner, light a fire in the hearth. The sounds of the damper cranking open, match striking, and wood crackling – magical. The woodsmoke settles briefly in my hair and transports me to seasons past.

6. Change the recipes from the cool meals of summer to the warm, comfort meals of winter; stews, soups, and hot meat pies.

7. Round up my Christmas baking supplies: cookie cutters, plum pudding molds, mince tart tins, and best of all, my mother and grandmothers’ special recipes and ingredients.

8. Listen to the muffled sounds of the city when the snow falls, delight in watching the snowflakes dance as they descend from on high and feel them touch my face, make a snow angel, and jump off a snowbank.

9. Get my skates sharpened, check my snowshoe strings, and find the wax for my cross-country skiis.

10. Cozy up in front of the fire after dinner with a warm blanket, hot chocolate or apple cider, and significant other… or a romantic novel.

In addition, check out the beautiful YouTube channel featuring many winter videos from Jonna Jinton in Sweden.

Photo by David Dodds

 

Ten Beautiful Things I Like About a North Man…

22 Friday Jan 2021

Posted by Satin & Sand in Photography, Reflections, Relationships

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beautiful, Ice, Ice fishing, North, Snow, W.H. Auden, Winter







North – cold, wind, precipices, glaciers, caves, heroic conquest of dangerous obstacles,
whales, hot meat, and vegetables, concentration and production, privacy. – W. H. Auden

  1. The way he uses an auger to makes holes for ice fishing before laying in the gill net.
  2. The way he pulls the polar shell over his leather mittens.
  3. The way he lays logs for a fire in the granite fireplace that he built himself.
  4. The way he knows what the temperature is without checking the thermometer.
  5. The way the snow and frost settle on his eyebrows.
  6. The way he climbs onto the roof to sweep off the snow.
  7. The way he snaps icicles off the eavestrough before they shatter onto the ground.
  8. The way he puts chains on his truck and that they always fit.
  9. The way he folds his trapper blanket at the end of the bed.
  10. The way he knows all the constellations in the winter sky – Orion being our favorite.

Photograph © David Dodds

Top sheeting…

10 Saturday Nov 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Relationships

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beautiful, Fashion, Kahill Gibran, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, Relationships

© Lauren DiMarco

© Lauren DiMarco

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you.
Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.
Kahill Gibran

Carefully pulling back the curtain to get a glimpse of your soul…

Model: Lauren DiMarco

Beautiful On The Brink…

14 Sunday Oct 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Writing

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Alice Munro, beautiful, Fashion, Photography, Red hair, Too Much Happiness

© Vanessa

So she has nothing with which to compare the extraordinary feeling – the change of perception – which is rippling through her now.- from Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

Overwhelmed by all the exciting new possibilities that await…

Beautiful Oral Gratification…

05 Friday Oct 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in America's Next Top Model, Fashion, Food, Photography, Reflections

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America's Next Top Model, beautiful, Diane Ackerman, Exotic cuisine, Khrystyna Kazakova, Photography

© Khrystyna Kazakova

Oysters on the half shell, arranged on a large platter of shaved ice, one by one polish the woman’s tongue with silken saltiness. – from A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman

Preparing for a weekend of sampling delicious exotic cuisine…

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Sweetest rose…

06 Monday Aug 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Design, Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Writing

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beautiful, Photography, Pink rose, Poetry, Walter de la Mare, When the rose is faded

Rose in garden Joan Currie

© Joan Currie

When the rose is faded,
Memory may still dwell on
Her beauty shadowed, 
And the sweet smell gone.
from When the Rose is Faded by Walter de la Mare

Tears came to my eyes when I found a keepsake box containing a pink sweetheart rose from my first prom corsage. It is lovely still!

Radiance…

16 Wednesday May 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Design, Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Relationships

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beautiful, Fashion, Margaret Sangster, Photography, Poetry, Vintage drop earrings, Winsome Womanhood, Writing

© Joan Currie – Vintage drop earrings

No trumpet sounds before him,
No silver bugles blow,
And skies are radiant o’er him,
And stars to light him glow.
from Winsome Womanhood by Margaret Sangster

I remember the intensity of your Prince Charming light.

Feline soul…

09 Wednesday May 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Relationships, Writing

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beautiful, Cat's Dream, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Pablo Neruda, Photography, Poetry

© Creative Smiles Photography

I have seen how the cat asleep
would undulate, how the night
flowed through it like dark water;
and at times, it was going to fall
or possibly plunge into
the bare deserted snowdrifts.
Sometimes it grew so much in sleep
like a tiger’s great-grandfather,
and would leap in the darkness over
rooftops, clouds and volcanoes.
from Pablo Neruda’s poem Cat’s Dream, translated by Alastair Reid

I love the way you sleep.

Model: Lauren DiMarco

Lust’s lure…

04 Friday May 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Photography, Reflections, Relationships, Writing

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beautiful, Love, Lust, Maksim Zaitsev, Male figure, Olesya Aleksandronis, Oscar Wilde, Photography, Poetry, The Harlot's House

© Olesya Aleksandronis

They took each other by the hand,
And danced a stately saraband;
Their laughter echoed thin and shrill.

Sometimes a clockwork puppet pressed
A phantom lover to her breast,
Sometimes they seemed to try to sing.

from The Harlot’s House by Oscar Wilde

Where did that lustful lover go?

Model: Maksim Zaitsev

Euphoria…

29 Sunday Apr 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in America's Next Top Model, Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Relationships

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America's Top Model, beautiful, Falling in Love in Six Acts - A Passion Play, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Love, Photography

© Khrystyna Kazakova

 You feel funny inside. You feel funny outside. You feel you could do anything and no one would dare laugh at you.
This love, you will treasure. You will not put it in the basement next to your rowing machine, treadmill, and thermal body sweat wrap. And you will not take this love for granted, because that is the biggest sin of all.
from Falling in Love in Six Acts (A Passion Play) an ad by Nike

Please, please, please make this feeling last…

Model: Khrystyna Kazakova

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