[mostly] wordless week: broken

This little laburnum always reminds me of the lightning-struck tree in Jane Eyre.

Andy and Lindsey gave us this statue of the Pietà. Just this past weekend, we finally cleared out the back garden and got it settled into place. I'm hoping to surround it with ferns, lily of the valley, hyacinths, and other flowers, but much of that will need to wait for spring.

[mostly] wordless week closes with music, for which I went hunting for the unusually splendid and came up with Palestrina. The text comes from Psalm 42, the psalm which begins "As a deer longs for flowing streams,
so my soul longs for you, O God."



Regular posting resumes with the blogalectic on Monday. Happy weekend!

[mostly] wordless week: october roses

'Tis the season for spectacular last-minute blooming from some of the roses.

[mostly] wordless week: her royal cuteness

The other day, Maia watched The Lizzie Bennet Diaries with me.

Lizzie (and Charlotte)

Since I found it impossible to take a picture that took in computer, cat and me and made any of the subjects but Maia and the computer look decent, here's a pretty one. Of Maia, of course.

[mostly] wordless week: flowers and sunshine

In all my years in Western Washington, I cannot remember a single sunny October. Let alone one in which the flowers were still going.

[mostly] wordless week: fall symptoms

Owing to a few busy weeks and the overbearing need to rest as well as to catch up on many things, including prep for this blog, I'm taking a week off the regular schedule. And I thought that while I went searching for a little silence and peace, you might like some, too. Rather than go entirely blogless, I'm introducing [mostly] wordless week. I say "mostly" because the chances that I'll say nothing at all are next to nonexistent.

Here's today's offering: a few of the signs of fall around house and garden. The sumac, turning colors...

an unknown flowering shrub, doing likewise:

a fallen rose:

tomatoes, ripening with the aid of window and banana:

...and one of Bellingham's sunsets.

Here's to a restful week for all of us! Normal posting returns next Monday.