tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post1658263771648551514..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Snowscapes againLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-22902568864313890102010-01-31T23:04:46.540+01:002010-01-31T23:04:46.540+01:00Well, I'll have to read it then. No question a...Well, I'll have to read it then. No question about it.Laura Frankstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02528540633399368216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-43327728210987321322010-01-27T12:01:25.712+01:002010-01-27T12:01:25.712+01:00Love that wood pile!Love that wood pile!J Cosmo Newberyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04459976320205444628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-26354229072547056502010-01-27T01:49:58.454+01:002010-01-27T01:49:58.454+01:00Lovely photos, Lucy. The lace-like silhouette of t...Lovely photos, Lucy. The lace-like silhouette of the trees, especially in the 4th and 5th photos are truly stunning, reminding me of etchings, by Rembrandt perhaps! <br /><br />Interesting thoughts about your recalls of past Sunday family dinners!<br /><br />Your reaction to Byatt's The Children's Book is so compelling that I now MUST get it and read it - in the summer when I have more time. I too find it seems harder these days to be truly and deeply absorbed and moved by a book.marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-3077793924397499212010-01-26T06:30:17.230+01:002010-01-26T06:30:17.230+01:00Thank you Lucas, lovely to see you.Thank you Lucas, lovely to see you.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-59797126461742795412010-01-25T22:53:32.506+01:002010-01-25T22:53:32.506+01:00I loved your description of the involuntary memory...I loved your description of the involuntary memory triggered by a glass of sherry: how very clear and tangible it all is - like the photographs of the hill roads in the snow!Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07642126053527835870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-53627322752967128112010-01-25T17:28:15.340+01:002010-01-25T17:28:15.340+01:00Thanks, good people.
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Isabelle - I know ...Thanks, good people.<br /><br />{{Dale}}<br /><br />Isabelle - I know discernment, critical analysis, better understanding, etc are important, and I really do welcome help with developing them; I don't just want to take a philistine 'I know what I like' kind of line. But sometimes I want just to respond. For me that response can change and develop, sometimes indeed with the input of others' points of view and perceptions. And I don't believe Vermeer was always thinking solely about those things when he painted either, but must have felt delight in the surfaces too... <br />One of our oldest friends here is Scottish-Canadian, so we've done Burns Night for years. I like having a frugal feast in January, and have become quite good at cock-a-leekie.<br /><br />Julia - yes, and I quite liked how some of them stepped out of the shadows briefly, and others just vanished, and how the one's I loved most weren't necessarily the main actors... It's an odd thing but I don't think I've done that since I was a child - rereading the end in unwillinglness to let the characters go, it's such a good thing to do. So I'm not going to pass it on to my friend to read just yet, but will pick it up and go over it a bit.<br /><br />Crow - Soup Queen! The post linked to was a challenge to myself to write the recipe, with the help of the photo, in just 30 words. A whole chicken makes an enormous quantity, enough for about ten people as a starter. But no reason not to make it with just a chicken quarter, and some crusty bread. It is really a two day process though.<br /><br />Zhoen - glad your air is clean, enjoy the book whenever you read it.<br /><br />CGP - Burns Night is still to come, apparently there are a few non-traditional elements like baked parsnips and trifle to be expected.<br /><br />Jean - thanks, I am in yet more good company then.<br /><br />RB - I do it less than I did, and in fact read more non-fiction which tends to be less gripping, I suppose. Except for 'The Philosopher and the Wolf' which I read before Christmas which had me tearful and sofa-bound in a similar way. It's good to know I can get that involved still though. I think I know what you mean about growing somehow nervous about it.<br /><br />Plutarch, dear, I have never considered you scorning, even of stock cubes!<br /><br />Nimble - I like how snow does that... I tweaked a couple of them everso slightly to enhance it!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-48165721921614442872010-01-25T16:44:16.810+01:002010-01-25T16:44:16.810+01:00I noticed the little touches of color in your snow...I noticed the little touches of color in your snowy pictures. They almost look tinted, I like it.<br /><br />How wonderful to be carried away by the book. Sigh.Nimblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16426446791363667887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-81517289949661798452010-01-25T11:39:07.795+01:002010-01-25T11:39:07.795+01:00I will not easily forget your recipe for cock-a-le...I will not easily forget your recipe for cock-a-leekie. Having appeared to scorn your use of stock cube to reinforce the natural stock, I confess to now having a stock of stock cubes in the cupboard for additional seasoning. Bon appetit!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-69110226291184954392010-01-25T11:27:30.277+01:002010-01-25T11:27:30.277+01:00I am tired of the greyness and very ready for spri...I am tired of the greyness and very ready for spring or another burst of cold winter. <br /><br />I used to grieve a bit when I finished a book. I seem to have lost that knack of becoming completely absorbed in a book and have not done so for years. I'm not sure why. I suspect it is a control thing - I am too scared to do so, wonder if doing so might upset the applecart a bit. But I really feel I must. I am reading a book at the moment - but I just dip in and out of it and it doesn't captivate me but I don't think that is the book itself, more my pond-skater state of mind.Reluctant Bloggernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-5469051138804468822010-01-25T11:02:05.320+01:002010-01-25T11:02:05.320+01:00I feel much the same about The Children's Book...I feel much the same about The Children's Book and thought of you and of Dick while reading it. <br /><br />That last photo, especially, is very lovely.Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08690685768980280402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-40246530433430629722010-01-25T09:12:32.837+01:002010-01-25T09:12:32.837+01:00what gorgeous photos, very beautiful! Hope you cel...what gorgeous photos, very beautiful! Hope you celebrated Burns Supper in style!Crafty Green Poethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02486633917197181851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-46761419319254578722010-01-25T01:53:42.967+01:002010-01-25T01:53:42.967+01:00I'm on the library list for that book, #28, so...I'm on the library list for that book, #28, so it will be a while. <br /><br />Grey here, but I don't mind because the air is so clean, and it might snow, or rain, and that's just fine.Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-82709618698421221152010-01-25T01:25:18.554+01:002010-01-25T01:25:18.554+01:00I was wondering what soup to make this week (won&#...I was wondering what soup to make this week (won't be until Tuesday, when I'm home from work), and I think I will follow your suggestion.<br /><br />So happens I have a couple of leeks in the fridge, but will have to shop for the prunes. Sounds yummy, Lucy.<br /><br />WF is 'wooksu.' How delightful!The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-40252821940081170542010-01-24T23:31:36.741+01:002010-01-24T23:31:36.741+01:00I fell in love with some of the characters too. Th...I fell in love with some of the characters too. There were so many and so manifold. I read the last few chapters a few times just so I could give them up.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02381204473168533313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-59954681854869935572010-01-24T23:10:35.586+01:002010-01-24T23:10:35.586+01:00Yes - I've always loved Vermeer's painting...Yes - I've always loved Vermeer's paintings and then I read an exhibition catalogue that claimed that they were all allegories of lust and deceit and things - I really didn't want to know that! And I don't believe it, so don't let this idea spoil them for you, either. <br /><br />Lovely photos but chilly chilly.<br /><br />I'm impressed that you're celebrating Burns Night. Fair fa' your honest sonsie face and all that. (I'm sure your own face isn't sonsie at all, of course.)Pam https://www.blogger.com/profile/12641269043817163165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-69782378594588932512010-01-24T21:50:03.584+01:002010-01-24T21:50:03.584+01:00(o)(o)Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-77333259376885990842010-01-24T20:18:08.447+01:002010-01-24T20:18:08.447+01:00Hello Cat! We had quite a bit of sunshine today, ...Hello Cat! We had quite a bit of sunshine today, I hope we've seen the last of the snow.<br /><br />I wanted to say, I don't want to come across as one of those people who sees any disagreement with their own opinions as a threat or an affront, I really hope I'm not! I just want to enjoy the afterglow of having being immersed in a book I've enjoyed.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-38027459060587405592010-01-24T20:14:26.970+01:002010-01-24T20:14:26.970+01:00Looks similar to photos I posted yesterday. C'...Looks similar to photos I posted yesterday. C'mon sunshine!Catalysthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804837416104556928noreply@blogger.com