Happy Mithrasmas, everyone.

Had a great Yule, and 2010 should be a good year for me.

It's been a cool, rainy summer here this year. I like this kind of weather, but it seems to have gotten a lot of folks depressed.

Happy upcoming Lammas, everyone. Time to bring in the first harvest. If the plants haven't rotted in the fields this year.

So I haven't really been posting much. I joined Livejournal mainly to read the journals of friends. But I decided I should try to actually post something. But my life isn't that exciting most of the time - office cubicle drone, forest lover trapped in the city, and sometime Druid. And I tend not to mention much about the Druid aspect on this ( Read more... )

Try answering these questions. You may surprise yourself on some of them ( Read more... )

It's been a hot, sticky month, except when it's raining. But my little garden is thriving ( Read more... )

This evening when I was out for a walk, I saw a robin for the first time this year. It's definitely springtime in Ottawa.

Another 25 centimetres of snow last night and today. And a bigger storm on the way, probably hitting us by about Saturday. It seems as if this is the winter that never ends. This is already the second biggest snowfall in the history of Ottawa, and some people are wondering if we'll set a new record this year. On the brighter side of things, I ( Read more... )

Another cold, snowy day. But at least it's Friday.

Last year was unusually warm and we only got about 2/3 of the snow that we get in an average winter in this area. But this year, things are going a bit differently. As of yesterday, we'd already gotten almost as much snow as we had all last winter. and sometime in the night, it started snowing. And just kept on snowing. After getting up, ( Read more... )

So, yesterday I posted something about how I'm over winter already,even though it's not even the middle of December yet. But today I received a painting of a beautiful winter scene from a very talented friend, and it put me right back into the Yuletide winter spirit. The painting shows a cabin surrounded by snow covered mountains and trees, and a ( Read more... )