Hamilton looks out on a snowy park. At last, a dusting of white to make his golden figure pop! He never looks better than against a ground of wintery pastels. . . . And, like so many others, he grows all soft-hearted when contemplating the romantic grey-blue skyline of the city at dusk. Click image…
Enter in
An air of expectancy adorns a suburban home on Christmas night. A dusting of snow has fallen, right on cue. Stillness reigns about the darkened doorway. What kind of day has it actually been?
Wholeness
Because tomorrow is my birthday, this period at the end of December is always one of personal reflection as well as a time to prepare with everyone else for a new year. My marriage three years ago to Mr C on January 2nd has only strengthened my sense that this is a season of new…
Glorious wall
A winter wall ablaze with color and the evidence of life.
Night biker
Night is the season that follows autumn, here in a city that’s had no snow.
A romance that’s over
Today my nephew is coming over to help me move some books and bookcases. I thought of my books last while lying on the loveseat in my study a few weeks ago. I was tired that day, and found myself looking up at these books, with which I had spent so many happy and difficult…
The city at six
Leave work late, and make your way through a city on which blackness is falling. Look up at the bus-stop and you will see the blues, the eerie yellows of a winter night. The colors are energizing, powerful; belittling, like the buildings they bathe. Click image to enlarge.
Night birds
Flying along west Randolph on a typical winter night.
Christmas tightening its grip on Chicago
Are you feeling the squeeze?
Cookies from the edge
Over the weekend, we engaged in some “advanced baking.” At least that’s what my husband has dubbed it. We plunged into the unknown and, using an unvetted recipe, tried to recreate the exact cookies Mr C remembers his grandmother making when he was a kid. The recipe (which his mother provided) produced a dough that…
The gift of cookies
Yesterday I spent almost the whole day baking. Among other things, I made a batch of Viennese crescents, which is a recipe I love because it’s elegant and makes many dozen cookies. Plus it’s easy. I favor recipes that have familiar associations. This one I first made with a friend in my first or…
Wholesomeness
To watch White Christmas is to think of the past, when I would watch this movie with my mother and sisters when I was a kid. Last night, it was sad to see White Christmas on television. My mind was full of the day’s news: of the children and teachers senselessly slain in a Connecticut…
