Holiday Tradition

We are living in a winter wonderland here. Nine inches and counting, it has been snowing for 24 hours and is not supposed to stop until tomorrow sometime. It is absolutely beautiful. 

What is it about having the world covered in white that makes everything seem so peaceful?

Elden and I took a late night walk this evening to enjoy the snow. We took the dog to her favorite field and watched as she romped in the snow, hopping like a bunny. 

Carefree, relaxed, special, that is what our delightful walk brought into our lives.

Every year we have a tradition to go look at Christmas lights. We pile into the car with our hot cocoa and popcorn and drive around to all of the best displays. Today our advent treat was "Go look at Christmas lights", due to the weather and the fact that Rachel away from home this evening we decided to walk around our neighborhood to enjoy the lights and the snow! Here are a few things that we saw...

  

I did get a chance to play in my studio this morning with Claudine Hellmuth's paints, they are fabulous. I got distracted by a big bright shiny object (9 inches and counting of snow is a big huge shiny object for the Pacific Northwest!) so I will have to share pictures of my project tomorrow.

Happy Winter!